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THE celebrations in connection with the jubilee of Sir George Gabriel Stokes, who has occupied the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University since 1849, begin this afternoon (Thursday) with the delivery by Prof. Cornu, of the École Polytechnique, Paris, of the Rede Lecture. Prof. Cornu has chosen as his subject, “The Wave Theory of Light and its Influence on Moder Physics.”
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The Jubilee of Sir George Gabriel Strokes. Nature 60, 109–110 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060109a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/060109a0