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
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In 1849 Stokes was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. In 1851 he was elected to the Royal Society, awarded the Rumford medal of that ...
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 ...
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet was a British physicist and mathematician noted for his studies of the behaviour of viscous fluids, particularly for ...
George Gabriel Stokes was a renowned mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the field of fluid dynamics.
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, PRS was an Irish physicist and mathematician. He worked at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Lucasian ...
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet ( August 13, 1819 – February 1, 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist who made many important contributions ...
A physicist and mathematician, he is known for his studies on the behaviour of viscous fluids and for Stokes's theorem, a basic hypothesis of vector analysis.
George Stokes moved to England and entered Bristol College in Bristol. Clearly Stokes's talent for mathematics was shown during his studies at Bristol College.
George Stokes, an Irish mathematician, physicist, politician and theologian, worked his entire career at University of Cambridge.
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Aug 13, 2021 ˇ George Gabriel Stokes, an Irish physicist and mathematician, was born Aug. 13, 1819. Although Ireland claims him, Stokes spent the last 65 years of his life at ...
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