Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, was an Irish mathematician and physicist. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent his entire career at the University of Cambridge, where he served as Lucas
Stokes, 1860s
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was a Scottish mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer.
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
…by the chancellor of the university, and marble busts of Stokes by Hamo Thornycroft were formally offered to Pembroke College and to the university by Lord Kelvin. At 54 years, Stokes' tenure as Lucasian Professor was the longest in history. Stokes, who was made a baronet in 1889, further served his university…
Kelvin, c. 1900, by T. & R. Annan & Sons
The meander of the River Kelvin containing the Neo-Gothic Gilmorehill campus of the University of Glasgow designed by George Gilbert Scott, to which the university moved in the 1870s (photograph 1890s)
William Thomson's telegraphic syphon recorder, on display at Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, in January 2019
Lord Kelvin's sailing yacht Lalla Rookh