Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Anglo-Irish mathematician and physicist (died 1903)

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, was an Irish mathematician and physicist. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent his entire career at the University of Cambridge, where he served as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics for 54 years, from 1849 until his death in…