Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart. 2 Volume Paperback Set
Selected and Arranged by Joseph Larmor

The memoir and professional correspondence of one of the British innovators in the fields of fluid dynamics, optics, and physics.

George Gabriel Stokes (Author), Joseph Larmor (Edited by)

9781108008938, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 24 June 2010

1016 pages
32.5 x 25 x 6.8 cm, 1.62 kg

Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge and president of the Royal Society, Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819–1904) made substantial contributions to the fields of fluid dynamics, optics, physics, and geodesy, in which numerous discoveries still bear his name. The Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart., edited by Joseph Larmor and first published in 1907, offers rare insight into this capacious scientific mind, with letters attesting to the careful, engaged experimentation that earned him international acclaim. Volume 1 contains his memoir and letters, including early correspondence with Lady Stokes. Professional correspondence covers Stokes' discoveries in the areas of spectroscopy, fluorescence, and colour vision. Volume 2 contains important professional correspondence with James Clerk Maxwell, James Prescott Joule, and many others, with particular attention given to Stokes' activities with the British Meteorological Society.

Volume 1: Preface
Part I. Personal and Biographical
Part II. General Scientific Career
Part IIIa. Special Scientific Correspondence
Appendix
Index. Volume 2: Part. III. Special Scientific Correspondence
Index.

Subject Areas: Statistical physics [PHS]