Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

thumb|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1860s) Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet FRS (August 13, 1819 – February 1, 1903) was a mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations), optics, and mathematical physics (including Stokes' theorem). He was secretary, then president, of the Royal Society. Quotes It is very difficult for us, placed as we have been from earliest childhood in a condition of training, to say what would have been our feelings had such training never taken place. George Gabriel Stokes Natural theology: The Gifford lectures, delivered before the University of Edinburgh in 1893 Adamant Media Corporation 1893 1421205122 4 Quotes about Stokes The properties of bodies were investigated by several distinguished French mathematicians on the hypothesis that they are systems of molecules in equilibrium. The somewhat unsatisfactory nature of the results... produced... a reaction in favour of the opposite method of treating bodies as if they were... continuous. This method, in the hands of Green, Stokes, and others, has led to results the value of which does not at all depend on what theory we adopt as to the ultimate constitution of bodies. James Clerk Maxwell, "Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics," The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell (1890) Vol.2 External links George Gabriel Stokes Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet Category:Physicists from the United Kingdom Category:Physicists from Ireland Category:1903 deaths Category:Mathematicians from Ireland Category:Mathematicians from the United Kingdom Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:University of Cambridge faculty Category:Fellows of the Royal Society