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August 1819 in Skreen, County Sligo; † 1. Februar 1903 in Cambridge) war ein irischer Mathematiker und Physiker . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Jugend und Ausbildung. 2 Leben und Wirken. 3 Namensgeber. 4 Familie. 5 Schriften. 6 Literatur. 7 Weblinks. 8 Einzelnachweise. Jugend und Ausbildung.
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, FRS ( / stoʊks /; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish physicist and mathematician. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903.
- Pembroke College, Cambridge
- Mathematics and physics
10. Apr. 2024 · Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet was a British physicist and mathematician noted for his studies of the behaviour of viscous fluids, particularly for his law of viscosity, which describes the motion of a solid sphere in a fluid, and for Stokes’s theorem, a basic theorem of vector analysis.
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8. Juni 2020 · Lucasian Professor Sir George Gabriel Stokes was appointed joint-Secretary of the Royal Society in 1854, a post he held for the unprecedented period of 31 years, relinquishing the role when he succeeded T.H. Huxley as President in 1885. An eminent scientist of the Victorian era, Stokes explained fluorescence (he also coined the word ...
- Paul Ranford
- 2020
13. Aug. 2011 · George Gabriel Stokes. Quick Info. Born. 13 August 1819. Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland. Died. 1 February 1903. Cambridge, England. Summary. George Stokes established the science of hydrodynamics with his law of viscosity describing the velocity of a small sphere through a viscous fluid. View ten larger pictures. Biography.
27. Juni 2019 · Abstract. George Gabriel Stokes was one of the most significant mathematicians and natural philosophers of the nineteenth century. Serving as Lucasian professor at Cambridge he made wide-ranging contributions to optics, fluid dynamics and mathematical analysis.
8. Juni 2020 · Sir George Gabriel Stokes PRS was for 30 years an inimitable Secretary of the Royal Society and its President from 1885 to 1890. Two hundred years after his birth, Stokes is a towering figure in physics and applied mathematics; fluids, asymptotics, optics, acoustics among many other fields.
