From L. J. CHALLIS
Jeremy Gray, in his enthusiastic review of Mary Cannell’s biography of the
mathematician and physicist George Green, refers to the fact that his
bicentenary falls this year (Review, 17 July). Your readers may be
interested to know that this was marked by a dedication service in
Westminster Abbey, at which the president of the Royal Society unveiled a
memorial plaque next to those of Isaac Newton, William Kelvin, Michael
Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell. The Lord Mayor of Nottingham also unveiled
a plaque in St Stephen’s church, Sneinton, Nottingham, where he is buried,
and a memorial window was dedicated in Caius College, Cambridge.
Other events included lectures at Nottingham University by Freeman Dyson and
Julian Schwinger describing how Green’s functions were first introduced into
quantum mechanics.
L. J. Challis
University of Nottingham
