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Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, (1819-1903), 1st Baronet, mathematician and physicist

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Surname: Stokes
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: George Gabriel
Gender: Male
Date: 1819-1903
Biography: ODNB link for Stokes, Sir George Gabriel (1819-1903), 1st Baronet mathematician and physicist
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P148670 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P27378 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir George Gabriel Stokes
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and papers
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
NRA 20700 Stokes
2
corresp and papers
Royal Society
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
3
1851: papers rel to refraction of light
Cambridge University: Pembroke College Library and Archive
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
4
1849-66: corresp with Sir George Airy
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
5
1855-69: corresp with Charles Babbage (10 items)
British Library, Manuscript Collections
6
1876-1890: letters (c40) to Sir John Conroy
Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections
NRA 22851 Conroy
7
1852-60: letters (18) to Michael Faraday
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Archives
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
8
1854-81: corresp with James David and George Forbes
St Andrews University Library
NRA 13132
9
1877-90: letters to Sir Francis Galton
London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
NRA 19968 Galton
10
1852-1870: corresp with Sir John Herschel (68 items)
Royal Society
NRA 8803
11
1873-87: letters (13) to Thomas Huxley
Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit
NRA 8194 Huxley
12
1846-1903: corresp with Lord Kelvin
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
NRA 20700 Stokes
13
1859-98: corresp with Lord Kelvin (12 items)
Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department
NRA 10032
14
1857-79: letters (10) James Clerk Maxwell
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
NRA 24528 Clerk-Maxwell
15
1865-89: corresp with Sir Richard Owen and William Clift
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
See Catalogue of MSS... Natural History Museum (1995)
16
1869-95: letters to Bartholomew Price
Oxford University: Pembroke College Archives
NRA 29439 Oxford Univ Pembroke
17
1864-79: corresp with 3rd and 4th Earls of Rosse (30 items)
Birr Castle Archives
NRA 25548 Parsons
18
1860-66: letters (26) to William Sharpey
London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
NRA 18112 Sharpey
19
1890-1903: letters to HP Stokes
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
NRA 34865
20
letters (120) to John Tyndall
Royal Institution of Great Britain
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
21
1896-98: scientific corresp with Sir JJ Thomson
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
NRA 23828 Thomson