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    The fluorescence of certain rocks and other substances had been observed for hundreds of years before its nature was understood. One of the first to explain it was Irish scientist Sir George Stokes from the University of Cambridge in 1852, who named the phenomenon "fluorescence" after fluorite, a mineral many of whose samples glow strongly because of impurities.