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  1. Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, FRS ( / stoʊks /; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish physicist and mathematician. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903.

  2. Aug 13, 2011 · George Stokes established the science of hydrodynamics with his law of viscosity describing the velocity of a small sphere through a viscous fluid.

  3. Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet was a British physicist and mathematician noted for his studies of the behaviour of viscous fluids, particularly for his law of viscosity, which describes the motion of a solid sphere in a fluid, and for Stokes’s theorem, a basic theorem of vector analysis.

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  4. Jun 8, 2020 · Lucasian Professor Sir George Gabriel Stokes was appointed joint-Secretary of the Royal Society in 1854, a post he held for the unprecedented period of 31 years, relinquishing the role when he succeeded T.H. Huxley as President in 1885.

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  5. Jun 27, 2019 · George Gabriel Stokes was one of the most significant mathematicians and natural philosophers of the nineteenth century. Serving as Lucasian professor at Cambridge he made wide-ranging contributions to optics, fluid dynamics and mathematical analysis.

  6. Learn about the life and achievements of Sir George Stokes, a pioneer in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics. Discover his contributions to the Navier-Stokes equations, light scattering, elasticity theory, and sound waves.

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  8. One of the greatest of Victorian scientists, Sir George Gabriel Stokes, was born the youngest son of an obscure parson in a remote Irish glebe house in 1819. He died a celebrated scientist and honoured public servant in Cambridge in 1903.

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