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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

Anglo-Irish mathematician and physicist

1819 - 1903

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His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet is the 41st most popular mathematician (up from 47th in 2024), 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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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet ranks #12 among 639 people in Pantheon born in Ireland, inside the top 2% of that group.

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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet climbed 608 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #2,884 to #2,276.

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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet's biography appears in 51 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 90% of all Mathematicians.

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Among Mathematicians

Among mathematicians, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet ranks 41 out of 1,010. 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, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 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 639. 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 Brendan the Navigator (486), Brigid of Kildare (451), Bram Stoker (1847), Edmund Burke (1729), Michael Gambon (1940), and Francis Bacon (1909).

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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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