Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)

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Joseph Lister giving thanks for a testimonial and portrait presented to him at King's College Hospital, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1895. Process print after A.S. Boyd, 1895.

Some Fellows of the Royal Society: with a key to the identities of the sitters. Wood engraving, 1889.

Kelvin and Stokes : a comparative study in Victorian physics / David B. Wilson.

Sir George Gabriel Stokes. Stipple engraving by C. H. Jeens, 1875.

Catalogue of the manuscript collections of Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs in Cambridge University Library / compiled by David B. Wilson.

On light. Third course, On the beneficial effects of light, delivered at Aberdeen in November, 1885 / by Gabriel Stokes.

On the effect of the internal friction of fluids on the motion of pendulums / by G.G. Stokes.

Address / of George Gabriel Stokes.

Natural theology : the Gifford lectures, delivered before the University of Edinburgh in 1891 / by G.G. Stokes.

On the theory of certain bands seen in the spectrum / by G.G. Stokes.

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Stokes, George Gabriel, 1819-1903

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On light. Third course, On the beneficial effects of light, delivered at Aberdeen in November, 1885 / by Gabriel Stokes.

On the effect of the internal friction of fluids on the motion of pendulums / by G.G. Stokes.

Address / of George Gabriel Stokes.

Natural theology : the Gifford lectures, delivered before the University of Edinburgh in 1891 / by G.G. Stokes.

On the theory of certain bands seen in the spectrum / by G.G. Stokes.