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Sir George Gabriel Stokes

Sir George Gabriel Stokes

Irish physicist and mathematician
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, FRS was an Irish physicist and mathematician. 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... Wikipedia
Born: August 13, 1819, Skreen, Ireland
Died: February 1, 1903 (age 83 years), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Spouse: Mary Susanna Robinson Stokes (m. 1857–1899)
Academic advisor: William Hopkins