14 July 1793 Born in Nottingham, England, only son of George Green, baker

1800-01 Attends Goodacre's Academy for four terms

c 1807 Apprenticed to father's new windmill in Sneinton

1814 Publication of Book I of Laplace's Mécanique céleste in Nottingham, translated by John Toplis

1828 Publishes 'An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism'

1830 Meets his patron, Sir Edward Bromhead

By 1833 Has written three more papers: publication sponsored by Bromhead in Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and Royal Society of Edinburgh

1833 Enrols as undergraduate in Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

1837 Takes Mathematical Tripos, emerges Fourth Wrangler

to 1839 Writes six papers, published in the Cambridge Transactions

November 1839, elected Fellow of Caius College

Spring 1840 Returns in ill-health to Nottingham

31 May 1841 Dies, aged forty-seven, in Sneinton, buried in St Stephens churchyard. Leaves Jane Smith, common-law wife, and seven children

After his Death

1845 Essay of 1828 rediscovered by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)

1850-54 Essay published in Europe in Crelle's Journal für Mathematik

1871 Publication of the Collected Papers of George Green, by Caius College, edited Ferrers

from 1845 Thomson developed Green's theories in electricity and magnetism followed by Clerk Maxwell; George Gabriel Stokes and others developed his work on wave theory in sound and light. Gained posthumous reputation, amongst 19th- and 20th-Century mathematicians and scientists; otherwise unknown to the general public

Recent Dates

1972 Formation of George Green Memorial Fund, based in the Physics Department, University of Nottingham

1985 Restoration of Green's Mill in Nottingham

July 1993 Bicentenary celebrations of Green's birth in three cities:

Nottingham

Civic Service in St Stephens, Sneinton.

Public Lectures in University of Nottingham.

Cambridge

Window to Green commemorated in a window in Caius College Hall.

London

Bicentennial Commemoration at the Royal Society.

Dedication of plaque to Green in Westminster Abbey.

2005 Greens Fund transferred to the BA