George Gabriel
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George Gabriel is the given name honored by the Stokes Medal, likely referring to the influential physicist and mathematician Sir George Gabriel Stokes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George Gabriel canonical | 2 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Copley Medal
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Royal Medal ⓘ Rumford Medal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ireland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Pembroke College, Cambridge
NERFINISHED
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Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| familyName | Stokes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fluid dynamics
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mathematical physics ⓘ optics ⓘ |
| givenName | George Gabriel self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasHonorNamedAfter |
Stokes Medal
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Stokes flow ⓘ Stokes line ⓘ Stokes number ⓘ Stokes parameters ⓘ Stokes phenomenon ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to vector calculus
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formulation of Stokes' theorem in differential geometry ⓘ foundational contributions to fluid mechanics ⓘ research on fluorescence ⓘ work on the wave theory of light ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Society ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Stokes hypothesis in fluid mechanics
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Stokes parameters ⓘ
surface form:
Stokes parameters in polarization
Stokes–Einstein relation ⓘ Hodge decomposition ⓘ
surface form:
Stokes–Helmholtz decomposition
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| notableWork |
Navier–Stokes equations
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Stokes' law ⓘ
surface form:
Stokes law
Stokes shift ⓘ Stokes' theorem ⓘ |
| occupation |
mathematician
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physicist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
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surface form:
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge
President of the Royal Society ⓘ |
| religion |
Anglicanism (broadly)
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surface form:
Anglicanism
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
CAMBRIDGE
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surface form:
Cambridge
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
George Gabriel Stokes