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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 all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet has received more than 533,495 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet is the 47th most popular mathematician (up from 50th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 14th 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 47 out of 1,004. Before him are Gottlob Frege, George Boole, Charles Sanders Peirce, Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, and Archytas. After him are Sofia Kovalevskaya, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Brahmagupta, Sophie Germain, Karl Weierstrass, and Philolaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet ranks 9. Before him are Jacques Offenbach, Clara Schumann, Léon Foucault, Herman Melville, Albert, Prince Consort, and Walt Whitman. After him are Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, Maria II of Portugal, John Ruskin, George Eliot, and Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. Among people deceased in 1903, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet ranks 8. Before him are Pope Leo XIII, Herbert Spencer, Theodor Mommsen, Camille Pissarro, Alois Hitler, and Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. After him are Alexander I of Serbia, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Otto Weininger, Hugo Wolf, Gotse Delchev, and Gemma Galgani.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet ranks 13 out of 549. Before him are Samuel Beckett (1906), Michael Gambon (1940), Francis Bacon (1909), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769), Bram Stoker (1847), and Edmund Burke (1729). After him are Pierce Brosnan (1953), Richard Harris (1930), William Rowan Hamilton (1805), Anne Bonny (1702), John Scotus Eriugena (810), and W. B. Yeats (1865).

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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), Alicia Boole Stott (1860), George Salmon (1819), and Henry John Stephen Smith (1826).

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