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Stokes and the Royal Society
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This chapter examines George Gabriel Stokes’s almost four decades of service to the Royal Society. As Secretary from 1854 to 1885, Stokes devoted an enormous amount of time and effort to editing the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings. In this role, he acted as both gatekeeper and mentor to a generation of scientists. The same qualities that made Stokes, as Secretary, an excellent steward of the ‘internal scientific work’ of the Royal Society, were sometimes at odds with the political challenges he faced as Royal Society President, an office he held from 1885 to 1890.
Title: Stokes and the Royal Society
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This chapter examines George Gabriel Stokes’s almost four decades of service to the Royal Society.
As Secretary from 1854 to 1885, Stokes devoted an enormous amount of time and effort to editing the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings.
In this role, he acted as both gatekeeper and mentor to a generation of scientists.
The same qualities that made Stokes, as Secretary, an excellent steward of the ‘internal scientific work’ of the Royal Society, were sometimes at odds with the political challenges he faced as Royal Society President, an office he held from 1885 to 1890.
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