Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Physicist, Academic
1819 – 1903
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Who was Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet?
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet FRS, was a mathematician, physicist, politician and theologian. Born in Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at University of Cambridge, where he served as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903. Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics. He was secretary, then president, of the Royal Society.
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- Born
- Aug 13, 1819
Skreen - Also known as
- 乔治·斯托克斯
- Стокс, Джордж Габриель
- Religion
- Evangelicalism
- Anglicanism
- Ethnicity
- Irish people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Republic of Ireland
- Profession
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Pembroke College, Cambridge
- Employment
- University of Cambridge
- Lived in
- County Sligo
- England
- Died
- Feb 1, 1903
Cambridge
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on July 23, 2013
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