• and physicist List of things named after George Gabriel Stokes Sir George Stokes Award (colloquially the Stokes Medal), awarded by the Analytical Division...
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    his death in 1903. As a physicist, Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid mechanics, including the Navier–Stokes equations; and to physical optics...
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  • The Sir George Stokes Award (colloquially the Stokes Medal) is named after George Gabriel Stokes and is awarded biennially by the Analytical Division of...
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    Stokes' theorem, also known as the Kelvin–Stokes theorem after Lord Kelvin and George Stokes, the fundamental theorem for curls, or simply the curl theorem...
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  • geometry the generalized Stokes theorem (sometimes with apostrophe as Stokes' theorem or Stokes's theorem), also called the Stokes–Cartan theorem, is a statement...
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  • 1846. The theoretical justification of the Poiseuille law was given by George Stokes in 1845. The assumptions of the equation are that the fluid is incompressible...
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  • Rayleigh and Sir George Stokes. This is considered as one of the simplest unsteady problems that have an exact solution for the Navier-Stokes equations. The...
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  • It was derived by George Gabriel Stokes in 1851 by solving the Stokes flow limit for small Reynolds numbers of the Navier–Stokes equations. The force...
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    mathematician George Gabriel Stokes. They were developed over several decades of progressively building the theories, from 1822 (Navier) to 1842–1850 (Stokes). The...
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  • professorship has been held by, among others, Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, George Stokes, Joseph Larmor, Paul Dirac, and Stephen Hawking. Henry Lucas, in his...
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  • War. Stokes was awarded the medal on 24 February 1865 for actions performed at the Battle of Nashville in Tennessee on 16 December 1864. Stokes was born...
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    meteorological and climatological effects. The concept was introduced by George Stokes in 1851, but the Reynolds number was named by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1908...
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    In fluid dynamics, Stokes problem also known as Stokes second problem or sometimes referred to as Stokes boundary layer or Oscillating boundary layer...
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    origins in the mid 19th century when Sir George Stokes – using a perturbation series approach, now known as the Stokes expansion – obtained approximate solutions...
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  • Northampton Saints, Stokes began his amateur career with Trocadero Marbella in Spain. In England he played for Bury St. Edmunds. Stokes played for Ayr when...
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  • Stokes Township is a township in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 229 at the 2000 census. Stokes Township bears the name of...
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    Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award George and Christine Sosnovsky Award in Cancer Therapy Sir George Stokes Award Supramolecular Chemistry Award Surfaces...
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    While Paxton and his son-in-law George Stokes worked on the mansion later to be known as Mentmore Towers, George Stokes also designed the first cottages...
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    years Thomson was distracted by her suffering. On 16 October 1854, George Gabriel Stokes wrote to Thomson to try to re-interest him in work by asking his...
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  • proposed that the aether is partially entrained by matter. In 1845, George Stokes proposed that the aether is completely entrained within or in the vicinity...
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    determined by constructing the Stokes vector for the input light and applying Mueller calculus, to obtain the Stokes vector of the light leaving the...
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    George Thomas Stokes (1843–1898) was an Irish ecclesiastical historian. He was the eldest son of John Stokes of Athlone and Margaret Forster his wife,...
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  • as Stokes number, Stk = Wo {\displaystyle {\text{Stk}}={\sqrt {\text{Wo}}}} , due to the pioneering work done by Sir George Stokes on the Stokes second...
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  • Good Scout 1937 : The Old Mill 1937 : Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1940 : Fantasia Robert Stokes at IMDb Robert Stokes at IMDb Disney portal v t e...
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  • Stokes voiced Kitty in the animated film Where is Anne Frank, and played Isabelle in the horror film A Banquet. It was announced in 2022 that Stokes would...
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    George Coleman Eads III (born March 1, 1967) is an American actor, known for his role as Nick Stokes on the CBS police drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation...
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    mathematician George Stokes invented Stokes lens to detect astigmatism. In 1887, American ophthalmologist Edward Jackson revised the Stokes lens concept...
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    instance, a 50 nm Stokes shift from absorption at 300 nm is larger in terms of energy than a 50 nm Stokes shift from absorption at 600 nm. Stokes fluorescence...
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  • Anglo-Irish Stokes family, whose notable members include Sir George Stokes, 1st baronet (Great Grandson), Whitley Stokes (physician) (Nephew), William Stokes (physician)...
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  • Australia. He is a relation of the Anglo-Irish Stokes family including Sir George Stokes and John Stokes. 1957 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science...
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