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    The Cambridge Philosophical Society (CPS) is a scientific society at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1819. The name derives from the medieval...
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  • the Cambridge Philosophical Society Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society is a mathematical journal published by Cambridge University...
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    Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (category Presidents of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
    Cambridge Philosophical Society. 9: 1–62. Stokes, G.G. (1851). "On the colours of thick plates". Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society....
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  • George Green (mathematician) (category Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
    Green was elected a fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Even without his stellar academic standing, the Society had already read and made note...
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    James Clerk Maxwell (category Presidents of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
    paper "On the Transformation of Surfaces by Bending" to the Cambridge Philosophical Society. This is one of the few purely mathematical papers he had written...
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    Francis Darwin (category Presidents of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
    Species (1887). Darwin was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1909. That same year, Cambridge University awarded him an honorary doctorate (DSc)...
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    Joseph Larmor (category Presidents of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
    of the Royal Society. 1896, "On the absolute minimum of optical deviation by a prism", Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Larmor, J. (1897)...
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    George Darwin (category Presidents of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
    "Mechanics, Physical Mathematics, Astronomy." As President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, he also gave the Introductory Address to the Congress in 1912...
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    W. V. D. Hodge (category Presidents of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
    Newman's rooms in Cambridge, to try to resolve issues. In the end Lefschetz was convinced. In 1928 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
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    The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge...
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