Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, FRS (/stoʊks/; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist. Born in County Sligo...
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George Stokes may refer to: Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (George Gabriel Stokes, 1819–1903), Irish mathematician and physicist List of things named...
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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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physicist George Stokes. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1916. Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903) Sir Arthur...
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presentations at the British Association in Oxford was attended by George Gabriel Stokes, Michael Faraday, and the precocious and maverick William Thomson...
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Sir Oswald Mosley, 5th Baronet (29 December 1873 – 21 September 1928), was a British Army officer, aristocrat, amateur sportsman, and the father of Oswald...
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four brothers was the noted physicist Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet. John and George remained close, and George, who was much younger, lived in John's...
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rough and inaccurate instruments, even though better ones were obtainable. Sir Humphry Davy described him as "a very coarse experimenter", who "almost always...
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Dublin), William Stokes (Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College, Dublin), Whitley Stokes and distantly, Sir George Stokes, 1st baronet. He was educated...
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Sir George White, 1st Baronet (1854–1916), was an English businessman and stockbroker based in Bristol. He was instrumental in the construction of the...
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and thus shares its motion at Earth's surface (proposed by Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet in 1844). In addition, James Clerk Maxwell (1865) recognized...
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Colonel Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, PC, MP, FRS, FRSE, FSA (10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835), was a Scottish politician, military officer and writer...
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Cunningham Blest, creator of the first Chilean School of Medicine Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, mathematician and physicist Jonathan Dolan, Irish badminton...
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Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet (1714–1769), of Smith House (later "Bromley House"), Angel Row, Nottingham, and of Stoke Hall in the parish of East Stoke...
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Sir Timothy Carew O'Brien, 3rd Baronet (5 November 1861 – 9 December 1948) was an Irish baronet who played cricket for England in five Test matches. Tim...
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president cannot serve for more than five years. The current President is Sir Adrian Smith who began his 5-year tenure on 30 November 2020. Historically...
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psychologist Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903) – mathematician, physicist, 'Stokes Theorem' and Stokes-Navier Equations' George Johnstone Stoney...
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Sir Charles Clifford, 1st Baronet (1 January 1813 – 27 February 1893) was a New Zealand politician. He was the first Speaker of the New Zealand House...
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suffragist (d. 1893) 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Anglo-Irish mathematician and physicist (d. 1903) 1820 – George Grove, English musicologist...
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Neumann (died 1957), Hungarian-born mathematician. February 1 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (born 1819), Anglo-Irish mathematician and physicist. February...
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Sussex on 19 August 1857. He was the youngest son of Sir Frederick Vincent, 11th Baronet of Stoke D'Abernon (1798–1883) and, his second wife, Maria Copley...
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wave equation Sinyan Shen Siphon Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet Sisir Kumar Mitra Sisyphus cooling...
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Sir William Throckmorton, 1st Baronet (1579–1628) was an English landowner and investor in the settlement of Virginia. He was the son of Sir Thomas (1539–1607)...
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British mathematician (1925–1983) Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet – Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903) Yvonne Stokes – Australian mathematician Howard...
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Sir Ralph Lewis Wedgwood, 1st Baronet, CB, CMG, TD (/reɪf/ RAYF; 2 March 1874 – 5 September 1956) was the chief officer of the London and North Eastern...
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Sir Ambrose Browne, 1st Baronet (died 1661) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England between 1628 and 1648. He supported the...
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Hugoniot (1851–1887) Heinrich Hertz* (1857–1894) Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903) William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin* (1824–1907) Rodolphe Radau (1835–1911)...
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Sir William Ayloffe, 1st Baronet (1563 – 5 August 1627), of Braxted Magna in Essex, was knighted by James I in 1603, created a baronet in 1612 and sat...
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January – Quintin Hogg, philanthropist (born 1845) 1 February – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, mathematician and physicist (born 1819) 7 February – James...
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FRS, botanist 1869: Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet FRS, mathematical physicist 1870: Thomas Henry Huxley FRS, biologist 1871: Sir William Thomson FRS...
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