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	Add MSS 7342, 7656	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	RGO MSS 941-51 passim
5	1855-69: corresp with Charles Babbage (10 items)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 37196-99 passim
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	University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, University Collections and Museums Directorate	msdep7	NRA 13132
9	1877-90: letters to Sir Francis Galton	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	GALTON	NRA 19968 Galton
10	1852-1870: corresp with Sir John Herschel (68 items)	Royal Society	HS	NRA 8803
11	1873-87: letters (13) to Thomas Huxley	Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit	B/HUXLEY	NRA 8194 Huxley
12	1846-1903: corresp with Lord Kelvin	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Add 7342, 7656	NRA 20700 Stokes
13	1859-98: corresp with Lord Kelvin (12 items)	Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department	MS Kelvin	NRA 10032
14	1857-79: letters (10) James Clerk Maxwell	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Add 7655	NRA 24528 Clerk-Maxwell
15	1865-89: corresp with Sir Richard Owen and William Clift	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L OC62	See Catalogue of MSS... Natural History Museum (1995)
16	1869-95: letters to Bartholomew Price	Oxford University: Pembroke College Archives	60/14	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	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	MS ADD 227	NRA 18112 Sharpey
19	1890-1903: letters to HP Stokes	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Add MS 8699	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	MSS H.4	NRA 23828 Thomson