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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

1819 - 1903

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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, (; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent his entire career at the University of Cambridge, where he served as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics for 54 years, from 1849 until his death in 1903, the longest tenure held by the Lucasian Professor. As a physicist, Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid mechanics, including the Navier–Stokes equations; and to physical optics, with notable works on polarisation and fluorescence. As a mathematician, he popularised "Stokes' theorem" in vector calculus and contributed to the theory of asymptotic expansions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet is the 41st most popular mathematician (up from 47th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 13th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Mathematician.

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet was a physicist and mathematician. He is most famous for his work in fluid dynamics and his theory of viscosity.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet ranks 41 out of 1,004. Before him are Brahmagupta, Pope Sylvester II, Georg Cantor, Apollonius of Perga, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, and John Napier. After him are Eudoxus of Cnidus, Johann Bernoulli, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Al-Battani, Gottlob Frege, and Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet ranks 7. Before him are Queen Victoria, Albert, Prince Consort, Jacques Offenbach, Gustave Courbet, Clara Schumann, and Léon Foucault. After him are Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, Maria II of Portugal, and John Couch Adams. Among people deceased in 1903, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet ranks 9. Before him are Theodor Mommsen, Herbert Spencer, Camille Pissarro, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Alois Hitler. After him are Josiah Willard Gibbs, Alexander I of Serbia, Hugo Wolf, Otto Weininger, Gemma Galgani, and Gotse Delchev.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet ranks 12 out of 549. Before him are Jonathan Swift (1667), Samuel Beckett (1906), George Berkeley (1685), Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850), Mary Harris Jones (1837), and John Scotus Eriugena (810). After him are Brigid of Kildare (451), Bram Stoker (1847), Edmund Burke (1729), Michael Gambon (1940), Francis Bacon (1909), and Eddie Jordan (1948).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ireland

Among mathematicians born in Ireland, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet ranks 1. After him are Vergilius of Salzburg (700), William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620), George Salmon (1819), Alicia Boole Stott (1860), and Henry John Stephen Smith (1826).

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