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publish a report on "The magneto-optic properties of crystals, and the relation of magnetism and diamagnetism to molecular arrangement".
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The Correspondence between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, Volume
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in air than in water, and establishes that the speed of light in different media is inverse to the
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publishes his paper on the mechanical theory of heat, which first states the basic ideas of the
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publishes a paper on the effects of the internal friction of fluids on the motion of
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distinguishes between poles and branch points and introduces the concept of
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in England establishes an Honour School (i.e. an undergraduate course) in
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Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism – the Western tradition
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process, "helicromy", capable of basic rendering of reds and blues.
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London, Edinburgh & Dublin Philosophical Magazine
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Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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