| Reference number | MS/928/2/157 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys |
| Date | 14 November 1890 |
| Description | He finished his last letter in a hurry and forgot to say that D referred to diameter. He has not yet attempted to fully calculate bands for the transmitted light. For a complete theory, diffraction as well as refraction would have to be taken into account. In calculating the polarisation of the diffracted light, he relied upon a result he produced long ago in a paper for the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. A crucial experiment in that paper could be done more simply with a silvered quartz fibre, but he does not have time to perform it. |
| Extent | 2p. |
| Format | Typescript |
| Physical description | On paper |
| Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist | 1819 - 1903 |