George Stokes

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

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George Gabriel Stokes 19
George Stokes canonical 2
Sir George Stokes 1

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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
Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
era 19th century
familyName Stokes
fieldOfWork applied mathematics
fluid dynamics
mathematical physics
optics
fullName George Stokes self-link
surface form: 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
surface form: Stokes parameters in polarization optics

Stokes shift
surface form: Stokes shift in spectroscopy

Stokes' law
surface form: Stokes' law of viscosity

Stokes' theorem
surface form: Stokes' theorem in vector calculus
positionHeld Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
surface form: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge

Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge
President of the Royal Society
religion Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: Anglicanism
residence Cambridge, England
workLocation Cambridge, England

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Navier–Stokes equations namedAfter George Stokes
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Pembroke College, Cambridge notableAlumnus George Stokes
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Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge hasAlumnus George Stokes
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George Stokes fullName George Stokes self-link
subject surface form: George Gabriel Stokes
this entity surface form: George Gabriel Stokes
Stokes–Einstein relation namedAfter George Stokes
this entity surface form: George Gabriel Stokes
Claude-Louis Navier influenced George Stokes
this entity surface form: George Gabriel Stokes
Stokes flow namedAfter George Stokes
this entity surface form: George Gabriel Stokes
Stokes Medal namedAfter George Stokes
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Stokes hasNotableBearer George Stokes
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Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland hasNotablePerson George Stokes
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Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland birthplaceOf George Stokes
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Stokes' theorem namedAfter George Stokes
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Stokes' law namedAfter George Stokes
this entity surface form: George Gabriel Stokes
Stokes parameters namedAfter George Stokes
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Stokes shift namedAfter George Stokes
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Stokes shift firstDescribedBy George Stokes
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Senior Wrangler (Cambridge Mathematical Tripos) hasNotableLaureate George Stokes
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Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem namedAfter George Stokes
this entity surface form: George Gabriel Stokes
Claude-Louis influenced George Stokes
subject surface form: Claude-Louis Navier
this entity surface form: George Gabriel Stokes
George Gabriel Stokes Medal namedAfter George Stokes
this entity surface form: George Gabriel Stokes