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THE close of the present Easter term coincides with the end of the fiftieth year of the tenure by Sir George Gabriel Stokes of the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge. Born in 1819, the same year as our Sovereign, he entered Pembroke College the year of Queen Victoria's Accession. In 1841 he took his degree as Senior Wrangler, the earliest of the wonderful group of Cambridge mathematicians—Stokes, Cayley, Adams—who occupied that position in three successive years. It has been one of the most pleasing features of the recent jubilee that Mr. H. Cadman Jones, who was second to Stokes both in the Mathematical Tripos and in the contest for the Smith's Prize, has been able to come to Cambridge to offer his congratulations to his old friend and competitor.
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The Jubilee of Sir George Gabriel Stokes. Nature 60, 125–129 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060125c0
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