George Gabriel Stokes
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Sir George Stokes Bt PRS |
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| Born |
13 August 1819 Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland |
| Died | 1 February 1903 (aged 83) Cambridge, England |
| Fields | Mathematics and physics |
| Institutions | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
| Academic advisors | William Hopkins |
| Notable students | Horace Lamb |
| Known for |
Stokes' theorem Navier–Stokes equations Stokes' law Stokes shift Stokes number Stokes relations Stokes phenomenon |
| Notable awards |
Smith's Prize (1841) Rumford Medal (1852) Copley Medal (1893) |
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, PRS (/stoʊks/; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903), was a physicist and mathematician. Born in Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he served as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903. In physics, Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics. In mathematics he formulated the first version of what is now known as Stokes' theorem and contributed to the theory of asymptotic expansions. He served as secretary, then president, of the Royal Society of London.
George Stokes was the youngest son of the Reverend Gabriel Stokes, rector of Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland, where he was born and brought up in an evangelical Protestant family. After attending schools in Skreen, Dublin, and Bristol, he matriculated in 1837 at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where four years later, on graduating as senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman, he was elected to a fellowship. In accordance with the college statutes, he had to resign the fellowship when he married in 1857, but twelve years later, under new statutes, he was re-elected. He retained his place on the foundation until 1902, when on the day before his 83rd birthday, he was elected to the mastership. He did not hold this position for long, for he died at Cambridge on 1 February the following year, and was buried in the Mill Road cemetery.
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