Sir George Gabriel Stokes
Irish mathematician and physicist
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, was an Irish mathematician and physicist. 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... Wikipedia
Born: August 13, 1819, Skreen, Ireland
Died: February 1, 1903 (age 83 years), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Education: Pembroke College and University of Cambridge
Parents: Elizabeth Haughton and Reverend Gabriel Stokes
Spouse: Mary Susanna Robinson Stokes (m. 1857–1899)
Academic advisor: William Hopkins
Show more
Show less
People also ask
How many kids did George Stokes have?
What are some interesting facts about George Stokes?
George Stokes' father, Gabriel Stokes, was the Protestant minister of the parish of Skreen in County Sligo. His mother, Elizabeth Haughton, was the daughter of ...
George Stokes was the youngest son of the Reverend Gabriel Stokes (died 1834), a clergyman in the · John and George were always close, and George lived with John ...
George Gabriel Stokes was the youngest of eight children of the Reverend Gabriel Stokes, rector of Skreen, County Sligo, and Elizabeth Haughton. Stokes was ...
Jun 19, 2020 · Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, PRS (13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Anglo-Irish physicist and mathematician.
Jun 8, 2020 · In a much quoted passage written by Stokes' daughter, Isabella Humphry, she writes that her father was 'one of a large family living in a ...
Apr 27, 2022 · Immediate Family ; Mary Susanna Stokes. wife ; Arthur Romney Stokes, 2nd Bt. son ; Susanna Elizabeth Stokes. daughter ; Isabella Lucy Humphry.
Unfortunately, the family life of George Gabriel and Mary was marked by tragedy: their first : Page 5 56 IMS Bulletin 35, 1995 two daughters died in infancy, ...
Oct 18, 2024 · George Stokes was the youngest son of the Reverend Gabriel Stokes ... Of all his family he was closest to his sister Elizabeth. Their ...
His father Gabriel Stokes, was the Protestant minister of the parish of Skreen. His mother Elizabeth Haughton, was the daughter of a minister of the church. So ...
Genealogy: Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) was born on August 13, 1819, in Skreen, County Sligo (Ireland) where his father Gabriel was Rector of the ...