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  George Gabriel Stokes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Stokes was the youngest son of the Reverend Gabriel Stokes, rector of Skreen, County Sligo, where he was born.
Sir George Stokes, who was made a baronet in 1889, further served his university by representing it in parliament from 1887 to 1892.
Stokes was the oldest of the trio of natural philosophers, James Clerk Maxwell and Lord Kelvin being the other two, who especially contributed to the fame of the Cambridge school of mathematical physics in the middle of the 19th century.
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 Encyclopedia: George Gabriel Stokes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
British mathematician and physicist, was the youngest son of the Rev. Gabriel Stokes, rector of Skreen, Co. Sligo, where he was born on the 13th of August 1819.
Sir George Stokes, who was created a baronet in i889, further served his university by representing it in parliament from 1887 to 1892.
Stokes was the oldest, of the trio of Ilatural philosophers, Clerk Maxwell and Lord Kelvin being the other two, who especially contributed to the fame of the Cambridge school of mathematical physics in the middle of the 1 9th century.
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 George Gabriel Stokes
Ray MacSharry, of a memorial at Stokes' birthplace in Skreen on Saturday 10th June 1995 as part of a meeting organised at Sligo RTC by the Institutes of Physics and of Mathematics and its Applications, under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy, as part of the Sligo 750 celebrations.
In 1798, Gabriel Stokes, son of John Stokes and Rector of Skreen, married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Haughton, the Rector of Kilrea.
He was made a baronet (Sir George Gabriel Stokes) by Queen Victoria in 1889, was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1893, and in 1899 given a Professorial Jubilee (50 years as Lucasian Professor) by the University of Cambridge.
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 George Stokes
George Stokes' father, Gabriel Stokes, was the Protestant minister of the parish of Skreen in County Sligo.
Stokes published papers on the motion of incompressible fluids in 1842 and 1843, in particular On the steady motion of incompressible fluids in 1842.
Stokes received the Copley medal from the Royal Society of London in 1893 and he was given the highest possible honor by his College when he served as Master of Pembroke College in 1902-3.
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After completing this research Stokes discovered that Duhamel had already obtained similar results but, since Duhamel had been working on the distribution of heat in solids, Stokes decided that his results were obtained in a sufficiently different situation to justify him publishing.
Stokes' work on the motion of pendulums in fluids led to a fundamental paper on hydrodynamics in 1851 when he published his law of viscosity, describing the velocity of a small sphere through a viscous fluid.
Stokes became engaged to marry Mary Susanna Robinson, the daughter of the astronomer at Armagh Observatory in Ireland.
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 Stokes, George Gabriel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This culminated in Stokes' law, F = 6rv, which applies to a force acting on a sphere falling through a liquid, where is the liquid's viscosity and r and v are the radius and velocity of the sphere.
In 1852 Stokes gave the first explanation of the phenomenon of fluorescence, a term he coined.
Stokes was born in Sligo, Ireland; he studied at Cambridge, where he became professor of mathematics 1849.
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 Adventures in CyberSound: Stokes, George Gabriel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Stokes developed mathematical techniques for application to physical problems, founded the science of geodesy, and greatly advanced the study of mathematical physics in England.
George Stokes (Born: 13 Aug 1819 in Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland Died: 1 Feb 1903 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England) established the science of hydrodynamics with his law of viscosity.
In 1849 Stokes was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.
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 Read about George Gabriel Stokes at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research George Gabriel Stokes and learn about George ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
George Stokes was the youngest son of the Rev. Gabriel Stokes, rector of
Stokes was the oldest of the trio of natural philosophers,
James Clerk Maxwell and Lord Kelvin being the other two, who especially contributed to the fame of the Cambridge school of mathematical physics in the middle of the 19th century.
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 Stokes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Stokes established the science of hydrodynamics with his law of viscosity (1851), describing the velocity of a small sphere through a viscous fluid.
Stokes published papers on the motion of incompressible fluids in 1842-43 and on the friction of fluids in motion and the equilibrium and motion of elastic solids in 1845.
He investigated the wave theory of light, named and explained the phenomenon of fluorescence in 1852, and in 1854 theorised an explanation of the Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum.
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 Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
British physicist and mathematician noted for his studies of the behaviour of viscous fluids, particularly for his law of viscosity, which describes the motion of a solid sphere in a fluid, and for Stokes's theorem, a basic theorem of vector analysis.
English poet Gabriel Harvey is remembered as much for his participation in literary feuds as he is for his own writing.
In a dramatization, George Washington recalls crossing the Delaware, spending the winter at Valley Forge and defeating the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
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 Encyclopedia: Navier Stokes equations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In fluid dynamics, the Navier-Stokes equations, named after Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes are a set of nonlinear partial differential equations that describe the flow of fluids such as liquids and gases.
For example: they model weather or the movement of air in the atmosphere, ocean currents, water flow in a pipe, as well as many other fluid flow phenomena.
The equations can be converted to Wilkinson equations for the secondary variables vorticity (additional info and facts about vorticity) and stream function (additional info and facts about stream function).
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 The Correspondence between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This collection of the correspondence between G.G. Stokes and Lord Kelvin provides invaluable insight and information on a period of major historical importance.
Stokes and Kelvin helped to bring about conceptual and institutional changes that transformed the science of physics.
Stokes and Kelvin corresponded for more than fifty years as professors in Cambridge and Glasgow respectively, thus amassing what is easily the largest extant correspondence between two Victorian physicists.
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 Stokes (unit) -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The stokes is the cgs physical unit for kinematic viscosity.
It is abbreviated S or St, and was named after George Gabriel Stokes.
In U.S. usage stoke is sometimes used as the singular form; the plural form is always stokes.
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An example is the work of the English mathematical astronomer, George Howard Darwin.
George Howard, the second son of Charles and Emma Darwin, graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1868 finishing Second Wrangler and second Smith's Prizeman.
Idealized mathematical solutions were often linked to the study of the earth's formation, interior and age as well as other problems in physical geology.
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 Stokes's Law
To see a demonstration of the wall effect, click here (if you are viewing this outside the campus of Concordia College, Moorhead, the graphics may be of low resolution or may not work properly).
The end effect correction modifies Stokes law to account for the fact that the sphere does not fall indefinitely and is based on the ratio of sphere radius to the total height of the liquid.
Click here to see a demonstration of the effect of temperature on viscosity (if you are viewing this outside the campus of Concordia College, Moorhead, the graphics may be of low resolution or may not work properly).
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Stokes Sir George Gabriel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Stokes, Sir George Gabriel (1819-1903), British mathematician and physicist, born in Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland, and educated at the University...
The first carefully documented friction experiments in low-speed pipe flow were carried out independently in 1839 by the French physiologist Jean...
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 The Correspondence Between SIR GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES AND SIR WILLIAM THOMPSON -
The Correspondence Between SIR GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES AND SIR WILLIAM THOMPSON -
The Correspondence between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thompson Baron Kelvin of Largs.
Stokes and Kelvin corresponded for over fifty years as professors in Cambridge and Glasgow respectively, thus amassing what is easily the largest extant correspondence between two Victorian physicists.
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 AllRefer.com - Sir George Gabriel Stokes (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Sir George Gabriel Stokes (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Stokes Sir George Gabriel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He is believed to have spent a short time at the University of Cambridge and to have...
Carteret, Sir George (circa 1610-80), English naval officer and colonial proprietor, born on the island of Jersey, in the Channel Islands.
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 Vector » Physicists of Ireland (Ed. Mark McCartney et al) » George Gabriel Stokes 1819–1903   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The contributions of G.G. Stokes to mathematics and physics are examined from a biographical viewpoint.
Craik, A D D 2000 Lecture delivered at the Stokes Summer School, Skreen, County Sligo, August 2000 G G Stokes and his Precursors on Water Wave Theory to be published
Wilson, David B (ed) 1990 The Correspondence between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson Baron Kelvin of Largs (Cambridge University Press) (2 volumes)
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 Stokes' Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1851, George Gabriel Stokes derived an expression for the drag force on spherical objects with very small Reynold's numbers (e.g., very small particles) by solving the generally unsolvable Navier-Stokes equations.
Stokes' law for drag force is expressed as:
By equating Newton's resistance law and Stokes' law, the drag coefficient can be solved for (applicable when Re<1):
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 The Pembroke College Stokes Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The "Stokes Society" is the Science Society of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
It was founded in 1909 as "The Germs", a name which has changed several times over the intervening years.
The Society now takes its name in memory of Sir George Gabriel Stokes, former Master of Pembroke College, and holder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University.
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 A Catalogue of the Portsmouth Collection of Books and Papers Written by or Belonging to Sir Isaac Newton. The ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
LUARD, H.R., JOHN COUCH ADAMS, GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES, AND GEORGE LIVEING, CATALOGUERS, A Catalogue of the Portsmouth Collection of Books and Papers Written by or Belonging to Sir Isaac Newton.
A book of inestimable value, catgaloguing as it does the Newton scientific manuscripts given to Cambridge by the fifth Earl of Portsmouth -- papers which originated from the Newton estate via the husband of Newton's niece.
The four scholars who catalogued the collection were themselves eminent in their fields: Luard, the mediaevalist; Adams, the astronomer and co-discoverer of Neptune; physicist Stokes; and the chemist Liveing
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