Person Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); First Baronet; physicist Stokes George Gabriel Sir physicist 1819 - 1903 British Male Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland 13 August 1819 18190813 Cambridge, England 01/02/1903 19030201 Burial: Mill Road cemetery, Cambridge, England (5 February 1903)

Pembroke College, Cambridge (1850)

physicist Geodesy Hydrodynamics Acoustics Optics Asymptotics Fluid mechanics Applied mathematics Physics Education: Trinity College, Cambridge (MA) Career: Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge (1849-1903); lectureship in physics at the Government School of Mines in London (1854-1860). Honours: Bt 1889 Medals/Awards: Smith's Prize 1841 Pour le Mérite 1879 International membership of NAS 1883 Actonian Prize 1886 Memberships: Cambridge Philosophical Society (President 1859–1861) British Association for the Advancement of Science (President 1869) Parents: Gabriel Stokes (1762–1834), rector of Skreen and vicar-general of Killala, and Elizabeth, daughter of John Haughton, rector of Kilrea, co. Londonderry. Spouse: Mary Susanna (1823/4–1899), daughter of Irish astronomer (John) Thomas Romney Robinson (1793–1882) and his first wife, Eliza Isabelle Rambaut (d. 1839), of Huguenot descent (4 July 1857). Children: Susanna Elizabeth (died in infancy); Dora Susanna (died in infancy); William George Gabriel; Arthur Romney; Isabella Lucy. Remembered for his studies of the behaviour of viscous fluids and the law of viscosity. Explained fluorescence and coined the word. Known for his hydrodynamical formuale,the ‘Navier–Stokes equations’. Royal Society roles: Sec 1854-1885; PRS 1885-1890; VP 1890-1892; Council 1853-1892; Editor of the Royal Society's scientific journals; scientific adviser to the Indian geodetic survey, the Meteorological Council, and the Solar Physics Observatory. Medals and prizes: Rumford Medal 1852; Copley Medal 1893 Fellow 05/06/1851 32 Robert Willis; William Hopkins; William Whewell; Baden Powell; George Peacock; William Clark; John Hymers; Adam Sedgwick; J C Adams Adams; John Bishop; William Henry Sykes; Charles Brooke; Charles Wheatstone Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 199-216, plate, signed by H References: Frank A J L James, 'The Conservation of Energy, Theories of Absorption and Resonating Molecules, 1851-1854: G G Stokes, A J Angstrom and W Thomson' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 79-107 Marie Boas Hall, 'The Royal Society in Thomas Henry Huxley's Time' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 153-158 W V Farrar, 'Edward Schunck, FRS. A Pioneer of Natural Product Chemistry' in NR 1976-7 vol 31 pp 273-296 John R Levene, 'Sir George Biddell Airy, FRS (1801-1892) and the Discovery and Correction of Astigmatism' in NR 1966 vol 21 pp 180-199 Alex D D Craik, 'James Ivory's last papers on the 'Figure of the Earth' (with biographical additions) in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 187-204 J S Rowlinson, 'The work of Thomas Andrews and James Thomson on the liquefaction of gases' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 143-159 W Hayes, 'Physics as well as poetry. Physicists of Ireland, edited by M McCartney and A Whitaker' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 245-246 R Iliffe and J Young, 'Report. Newton on the net: first and prospective fruits of a Royal Society grant' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 83-88 P Fara, 'Lucasian Professors. From Newton to Hawking: a history of Cambridge University's Lucasian professors of mathematics, ed K C Knox and R Noakes' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 312-313 G Ferrari and A McConnell, 'Robert Mallet and the 'Great Neapolitan earthquake' of 1857 in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 45-64 Stokes P0126.jpg ©The Royal Society International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Stokes%2C+George+Gabriel RCN 21697 RCN R65267 RCN R65268 RCN 55414 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/results?mi_search_type=adv&mi_adv_search=yes&adv_person_id=AUTH8136 13 Aug 1819 - 1 Feb 1903 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 14/08/2024 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA8283 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 25/04/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/73899541 1d97eb31-1ab9-40a8-8f89-c0ae3599a48b