and physicist List of things named after George Gabriel Stokes Sir George Stokes Award (colloquially the Stokes Medal), awarded by the Analytical Division...

his death in 1903. As a physicist, Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid mechanics, including the Navier–Stokes equations; and to physical optics...

geometry the generalized Stokes theorem (sometimes with apostrophe as Stokes' theorem or Stokes's theorem), also called the Stokes–Cartan theorem, is a statement...

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...

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,...

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...

origins in the mid 19th century when Sir George Stokes – using a perturbation series approach, now known as the Stokes expansion – obtained approximate solutions...

meteorological and climatological effects. The concept was introduced by George Stokes in 1851, but the Reynolds number was named by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1908...

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...

In fluid dynamics, Stokes problem also known as Stokes second problem or sometimes referred to as Stokes boundary layer or Oscillating boundary layer...

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...

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...

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...

professorship has been held by, among others, Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, George Stokes, Joseph Larmor, Paul Dirac, and Stephen Hawking. Henry Lucas, in his...

mathematician George Gabriel Stokes. They were developed over several decades of progressively building the theories, from 1822 (Navier) to 1842–1850 (Stokes). The...

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...

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...

The Sir George Stokes Award (colloquially the Stokes Medal) is named after George Gabriel Stokes and is awarded biennially by the Analytical Division of...

Stokes first came to prominence with his role as Michael Garvey in Derren Litten’s ITV comedy, Benidorm, a role he played from 2007 to 2015. Stokes played...

Campbell–Stokes recorder Coriolis–Stokes force Stokes equation Stokes formula Stokes' law of sound attenuation Stokes line Stokes–Einstein (Stokes–Einstein–Sutherland)...

determined by constructing the Stokes vector for the input light and applying Mueller calculus, to obtain the Stokes vector of the light leaving the...

Benjamin Andrew Stokes was born on 4 June 1991 in Christchurch, New Zealand, the son of rugby league footballer and coach Gerard Stokes (known as 'Ged')...

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...

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...

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...

George Henry Stokes (22 June 1876 – 19 April 1959) was a Canadian politician, breeder of Ayrshire cattle and a farmer by career. Stokes served as a National...

Stokes lens also known as variable power cross cylinder lens is a lens used to diagnose a type of refractive error known as astigmatism. The Stokes lens...

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...

John Polkinghorne, Frank Ramsey, Lord Rayleigh (John Strutt), Sir George Stokes, Isaac Todhunter, Sir Gilbert Walker, and James H. Wilkinson. Senior...

Victoria. His unmarried mother was Marie Jean Alford. Stokes was adopted by Matthew and Irene Stokes and grew up in Camp Pell, a slum housing area. He later...