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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 13 August 1819
- Died
- 1 February 1903
- Place of birth
- County Sligo, Skreen
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Stokes
- Father
- Gabriel Stokes
- Mother
- Elizabeth Haughton
- Spouse
- Mary Susanna Stokes
- Field of work
- mathematics, mechanics, physics, politics, theology
- Occupation
- mathematician, physicist, politician, theologian, university teacher
- Position held
- member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom, President of the Royal Society, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, chairperson, Master of Pembroke College
- Citizenship
- Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, Copley Medal, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Helmholtz Medal, Rumford Medal, Actonian Prize, Gifford Lectures
- archives at
- Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
- birth name
- George Gabriel Stokes
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Dictionary of National Biography, second supplement, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Belarusian encyclopedia (vol. 15), Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- William Hopkins
- doctoral student
- John William Strutt, Horace Lamb
- educated at
- City of Bristol College, Pembroke College
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- inventory number
- MS COLL 00018
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Royal Society of Edinburgh, National Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Turin, Victoria Institute, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
- noble title
- baronet, Stokes baronets
- notable work
- Navier–Stokes equations, Stokes' law, Stokes' law of sound attenuation, Stokes' theorem, Stokes parameters, Stokes shift, Stokes flow, Stokes number, Stokes line
- place of burial
- Mill Road Cemetery
- topic's main category
- Category:George Gabriel Stokes
- work location
- London
- writing language
- English
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