George Stokes

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Irish person human mathematician physicist

George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.

Aliases (2)

George Gabriel Stokes ×56
Sir George Stokes ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Irish person → human → mathematician → physicist →
academicDegree	Senior Wrangler (Cambridge Mathematical Tripos) →
awardReceived	Copley Medal → Royal Medal →
birthDate	1819-08-13 →
birthPlace	Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland →
deathDate	1903-02-01 →
deathPlace	Cambridge, England →
educatedAt	Pembroke College, Cambridge NERFINISHED → University of Cambridge →
era	19th century →
familyName	Stokes →
fieldOfWork	applied mathematics → fluid dynamics → mathematical physics → optics →
fullName	George Gabriel Stokes →
givenName	George →
influenced	electromagnetism → fluid mechanics → vector calculus →
influencedBy	Augustin-Jean Fresnel → Isaac Newton → Siméon Denis Poisson →
knownFor	Navier–Stokes equations → Stokes parameters → Stokes shift → Stokes' law → Stokes' theorem → contributions to mathematical analysis → work on fluorescence → work on hydrodynamics → work on the wave theory of light →
memberOf	Cambridge Philosophical Society → Royal Society →
nationality	Irish →
notableConcept	Stokes parameters in polarization optics → Stokes shift in spectroscopy → Stokes' law of viscosity → Stokes' theorem in vector calculus →
positionHeld	Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge → Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge → President of the Royal Society →
religion	Anglicanism →
residence	Cambridge, England →
workLocation	Cambridge, England →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Navier–Stokes equations ("George Gabriel Stokes") → Stokes Medal ("George Gabriel Stokes") → Stokes flow ("George Gabriel Stokes") → Stokes–Einstein relation ("George Gabriel Stokes") →	namedAfter
George Gabriel Stokes ("George Gabriel Stokes") →	fullName
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge ("Sir George Stokes") →	hasAlumnus
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics →	hasHolder
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics →	hasNotableHolder
Claude-Louis Navier ("George Gabriel Stokes") →	influenced
Pembroke College, Cambridge ("George Gabriel Stokes") →	notableAlumnus