Talk:Alec Stokes

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all the people listed as discoverers of the structure of DNA have a box with the list of their co-discoverers in, but the list differs between each member, as does the format.

I don't understand this

He retired from King's in 1982 and continued to work on publications, including the books 'The Theory of the Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Materials' (1963) and 'The Principles of Atomic and Nuclear Physics' (1972).

If he retired in 1982, how did he continue to work on publications from one and two decades earlier? Were they subsequent editions, or is this just written in an unfortunate and chronologically jumbled way? Maybe the retirement date should be 1962? Quale 10:02, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

He was still lecturing at King's in 1984/85 actually - v. encouraging to students and nice bloke too! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.225.205.112 (talk) 18:17, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He was tutor to the second year physics group I was in 1962-3. We soon found that we needed to arrive with lots of questions; otherwise he, a decent but very shy man, would sit in an awkward silence until one of us broke it. Tutorials were rare in those days at Kings and staff unready for them. We had no idea that his name was on one of the triplet of DNA papers.TSRL (talk) 22:27, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Alec Stokes" needs to be changed to 'Alex' Stokes; 'Alex' is short for 'Alexander' of course!

91.110.135.22 (talk) 13:40, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requested revert title name to "Alec Stokes", after consulting someone at King's College, London!

91.108.63.60 (talk) 13:16, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Technically, was Stokes appointed a Lecturer in the Department of Physics, and a member of the Biophysics Unit? The articles on Rosalind Franklin and related topics omit information about the organizational context that is very relevant. Michael P. Barnett (talk) 11:41, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

He was a lecturer in Physics at KCL in the early '60s (see my note above). The Wheatstone, like any university physics research laboratory, housed several research groups; there were, for example, groups working on diamonds (a precursor to the LEDs of III-V semiconductors) and on infrared molecular spectra, including the then novel interferometric fast Fourier transform technique. At that time the biophysics group were beginning to migrate to new labs over the road, though one of my postgrad contemporaries, tasked with building a 2 m high DNA structural model, built it in the Wheatstone. Organizational structures within the Wheatstone were loose and flexible so we all talked to each other productively. Science mostly proceeds by cross-talk, not inclusive management structures.TSRL (talk) 23:17, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]