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George Gabriel Stokes George Gabriel Stokes "George Gabriel Stokes" ( 13. August in Skreen (Grafschaft Sligo , Irland), Irland 1. Februar in Cambridge ), war Mathematiker und Physiker Nach ihm sind die Navier-Stokes Gleichungen und der Satz von Stokes benannt. Ebenso die Einheit Stokes sowie die Stokessche Reibung Stokes studiert ab in Cambridge , graduiert und wird hier Professor der Mathematik. Seit ist er auch Sekret¤r der Royal Society . Stokes arbeitet auf dem Gebiet der reinen Mathematik sowie der mathematischen und experimentellen Physik. Seine theoretischen Untersuchungen besch¤ftigen sich haupts¤chlich mit Hydrodynamik , der Theorie des Licht s und der Theorie des Schall s, seine Experimente vorwiegend mit den Erscheinungen des Lichts. Eine wichtige Arbeit behandelt die Fluoreszenz des Lichts, deren Natur er zuerst erkannte. Er wies nach, dass die fluoreszierenden Substanzen selbst leuchtend werden, indem sie das auftreffende Licht in sich aufnehmen. Dadurch geraten die Molek¼le des K¶rpers in Schwingungen. Stokes begr¼ndete durch diese Arbeit die Theorie der Absorption des Lichts. In der Folge besch¤ftigte er sich mit der Absorptions-Spektralanalyse und untersuchte den ultraviolett en Teil des Spektrums Werke Mathematical and physical papers, Cambridge 1880-83, 2 B¤nde

22. Stokes George Gabriel Stokes. (13. 8. 1819 1. 2. 1903). Irský matematik a fyzik GeorgeGabriel Stokes se narodil 13. srpna 1819 ve meste Sligo v Irsku. http://herodes.feld.cvut.cz/nonlin/slavni/stokes.htm

Slavní lidé, kteøí se zabývali akustikou George Gabriel Stokes Irský matematik a fyzik George Gabriel Stokes se narodil 13. srpna 1819 ve mìstì Sligo v Irsku. Byl synem protestanského knìze Gabriela Stokese, jeho matka byla dcerou duchovního pastora, a proto byl Stokes vychován velmi zbožnì. Pocházel ze šesti dìtí, jeho tøi starší bratøi se stali také knìzi jako jejich otec. Navštìvoval školu v Dublinu a poté, co ji v roce 1832 opustil, strávil tøi roky na Rev R. H. Wall's school V roce 1835 ve vìku 16 let George Stokes odešel do Anglie do Bristolu, kde vstoupil do College in Bristol . Bìhem dvou let, které zde strávil, se pøipravoval na studium v Cambridge, kde pozdìji studoval a posléze se také stal profesorem matematiky. V roce 1851 byl zvolen èlenem Královské spoleènosti v Londýnì. V letech 1854-85 byl zvolen jejím tajemníkem a v letech 1885-1890 byl jejím pøedsedou. Na universitì v Cambridge založil první fyzikální laboratoø v Anglii. Roku 1857 se oženil s Mary Susan Robinsnovou. Její otec byl astronomem v Armagh v Irsku. Stokes byl také pøedsedou Victoria Institute, a to od roku 1886 až do jeho smrti v roce 1903. Stokesovy práce se pøedevším týkaly matematiky, mechaniky, matematické a experimentální fyziky, teorie vyšších øad, hydrodynamiky, rovnováhy pružných tìles, teorie moøských vln, studia spektra absorbce, interference a polarizace svìtla a difrakce. Stokes dokázal, že fluoreskující látky se stávají svìtelnými, absorbují-li do sebe svìtlo na nì dopadající tak, že svìtlem jsou molekuly hmoty uvádìny do vibraèního pohybu. Stokes se také zabýval absorbèím spektrem (zkoumal ultrafialové paprsky), a doplnil teorii duhy George Airyho. Stokesovy práce a výzkumy jsou zaneseny v knize

23. Stokes george stokes father, gabriel stokes, was the Protestant minister of the parishof Skreen in County Sligo. His mother, Elizabeth Haughton, was the daughter http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Stokes.html

George Gabriel Stokes Born: 13 Aug 1819 in Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland Died: 1 Feb 1903 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Click the picture above to see eight larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Version for printing George Stokes ' father, Gabriel Stokes, was the Protestant minister of the parish of Skreen in County Sligo. His mother, Elizabeth Haughton, was the daughter of a minister of the church, so George Stokes' upbringing was a very religious one. He was the youngest of six children and every one of his three older brothers went on to become a priest. As the priest of the church in Cambridge which Stokes later attended wrote (see [15]):- Though he was never narrow in his faith and religious sympathies, he always held fast by the simple evangelical truths he learnt from his father... In [4] the atmosphere in which George grew up is described in words which are more colourful than those which might be used today:- The home-life in the Rectory at Skreen was very happy, and the children grew up in the fresh sea-air with well-knit frames and active minds. Great economy was required to meet the educational needs of the large family...

24. References For Stokes A Kinsella, Sir george gabriel stokes the Malahide connection, Irish Math. A Wood, george gabriel stokes 18191903, an Irish mathematical physicist, http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Stokes.html

References for George Stokes Version for printing Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Obituary in The Times available on the Web Books: J Larmor, Memoir and scientific correspondence of the late Sir George Gabriel Stokes (2 vols.) (Cambridge, 1907). D B Wilson, Kelvin and Stokes: A Comparative Study in Victorian Physics Articles: E W Brown, Note on George Gabriel Stokes, Phys. Rev. J Z Buchwald, Why Stokes never wrote a treatise on optics, in The investigation of difficult things (Cambridge, 1992), 451-476. I Grattan-Guinness, The Cauchy- Stokes- Seidel story on uniform convergence again: was there a fourth man?, Notes and Records Roy. Soc. London V J Katz, The history of Stokes' theorem, Math. Mag. M A Kharitonova, The development of the mathematical theory of diffraction by G Stokes (Russian), Ocherki Istor. Estestvoznan. Tekhn. No. A Kinsella, Sir George Gabriel Stokes : the Malahide connection, Irish Math. Soc. Bull. Lord Rayleigh, George Gabriel Stokes

25. George Gabriel Stokes [Pictures And Photos Of] george gabriel stokes pictures, photos, photographs, images, physics history. http://www.aip.org/history/esva/catalog/esva/Stokes_Gabriel.html

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26. AIP Niels Bohr Library Mathematical and physical papers / by george gabriel stokes . Obituary noticeof Sir george gabriel stokes, by Lord Rayleigh v. 5, p. ixxxv. http://www.aip.org/history/catalog/16923.html

If you are not immediately redirected, please click here My List - Help Browse Books Archival Resources Archival Finding Aids Photos Browse FAQs Past Searches History Home Search: Author Subject Title Journal/Newspaper Title Series Computer File (Software) Title Video Title Refine Search AIP Niels Bohr Library Item Information Holdings More by this author Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819-1903. Subjects Physics. Hydrodynamics. Physical optics. Mathematics Problems, exercises, etc. Browse Catalog by author: Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819-1903. by title: Mathematical and phy... MARC Display Mathematical and physical papers / by George Gabriel Stokes ... Reprinted from the original journals and transactions, with additional notes by the author. by Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819-1903. Cambridge : University Press, 1880-1905. 1880-1905. Call Number: N8 STO:A Description: 5 v. : fronts. (ports., v. 4-5) ill. ; 23 cm. Notes: Vols. 4-5: by the late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, bart. ... Reprinted from the original journals and transactions, with brief historical notes and references. Vols. 4-5 edited by J. Larmor.

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28. Adventures In CyberSound: Stokes, George Gabriel An online, academic work that will research the history of radio and the relatedmedia services of telegraphy, telephony, facsimile, television, http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/STOKES_BIO.html

A D V E N T U R E S in C Y B E R S O U N D George Gabriel Stokes, Sir : 1819 - 1903 George Gabriel Stokes, (b. Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland, Aug. 13, 1819, d. Feb. 1, 1903), was a British physicist and mathematician whose law of viscosity (1851), describing the movement of a small sphere through a viscous fluid, established the science of hydrodynamics. He investigated the wave theory of light, named and explained the phenomenon of fluorescence in 1852, and in 1854 theorized an explanation of the Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum. Stokes developed mathematical techniques for application to physical problems, founded the science of geodesy, and greatly advanced the study of mathematical physics in England. Richard Hirsh Source: The New Grolier Multimedia Encylopedia 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. 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. In 1849 Stokes was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. In 1851 Stokes was elected to the Royal Society and was secretary of the Society from 1854 to 1884 when he was elected president.

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32. Stokes, George Gabriel stokes, george gabriel (18191903) This culminated in stokes law, F = 6rv,which applies to a force acting on a sphere falling through a liquid, http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/S/Stokes/1.html

Stokes, George Gabriel Irish physicist who studied the viscosity (resistance to relative motion) of fluids. 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. He noticed that ultraviolet light was being absorbed and then re-emitted as visible light. This led him to use fluorescence as a method to study ultraviolet spectra. Stokes was born in Sligo, Ireland; he studied at Cambridge, where he became professor of mathematics 1849. Stokes's investigation into fluid dynamics in the late 1840s led him to consider the problem of the ether, the hypothetical medium for the propagation of light waves. He showed that the laws of optics held if the Earth pulled the ether with it in its motion through space, and from this he assumed the ether to be an elastic substance that flowed with the Earth. Stokes realized in 1854 that the Sun's spectrum is made up of spectra of the elements it contains. He concluded that the dark Fraunhofer lines are the spectral lines of elements absorbing light in the Sun's outer layers.

33. George Stokes george stokes father, gabriel stokes, was the Protestant minister of the parish of george gabriel stokes (18191903). stokes entered Pembroke College, http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Biographies/StokesBio.htm

George Gabriel Stokes George Stokes' father, Gabriel Stokes, was the Protestant minister of the parish of Skreen in County Sligo. His mother was the daughter of a minister of the church so George Stokes's upbringing was a very religious one. Leaving Skreen in 1832, George attended school in Dublin. In 1835, at the age of 16, George Stokes moved to England and entered Bristol College in Bristol. Clearly Stokes's talent for mathematics was shown during his studies at Bristol College. Stokes entered Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1837. In Stokes's second year at Cambridge he began to be coached by William Hopkins, a famous Cambridge coach who played a more important role than the lecturers. In 1841 Stokes graduated as Senior Wrangler (the top First Class degree) in the Mathematical Tripos and he was the first Smith's prizeman. Pembroke College immediately gave him a Fellowship. Stokes published papers on the motion of incompressible fluids in 1842 and 1843, in particular On the steady motion of incompressible fluids in 1842. After completing the 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 then continued his investigations, looking at the situation where he took into account internal friction in fluids in motion. After he had deduced the correct equations of motion Stokes discovered that again he was not the first to obtain the equations since Navier, Poisson and Saint-Venant had already considered the problem.

34. Stokes, Sir George Gabriel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 stokes, Sir george gabriel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 200105. http://www.bartleby.com/65/st/Stokes-S.html

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Newton Institute Seminars on the Web > Stokes celebration 18 Mar 2003 Sir George Gabriel Stokes - A celebration a centenary meeting devoted to his scientific work and his influence on modern mathematics and science 18 Mar 2003: Stoke's influence on differential geometry Sir Michael Atiyah 18 Mar 2003: Stokes and the rainbow Sir Michael Berry 18 Mar 2003: Gibbs bivectors and Stokes parameters Prof. Michael Hayes 18 Mar 2003: Stokes and the dynamics of viscous fluids Prof. H. Keith Moffatt 18 Mar 2003: G.G.Stokes, scientist and victorian Prof. David B. Wilson 18 Mar 2003: Family background and early life Prof. Alastair Wood Newton Institute Seminars on the Web > Stokes celebration feedback to: webseminars@newton.cam.ac.uk

37. Sir George Gabriel Stokes: A Centenary Meeting SIR george gabriel stokes 1819 1903. A Centenary Meeting devoted to his scientificwork and his influence on modern mathematics and science http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/events/stokes/

SIR GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES A Centenary Meeting devoted to his scientific work and his influence on modern mathematics and science Tuesday 18 March 2003 Registration and Coffee Professor Sir Michael Berry (Bristol University) Stokes and the Rainbow Professor Michael Hayes (University College Dublin) Gibbs Bivectors and Stokes Parameters Professor H. Keith Moffatt (Cambridge University) Stokes and the Dynamics of Viscous Fluids Professor Alastair Wood (Dublin City University) Family Background and Early Life Professor David B. Wilson (Iowa State University) G.G.Stokes, Scientist and Victorian Tea Professor Sir Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh) Stokes’s Influence on Differential Geometry Lunch will be available at nearby Wolfson Court , part of Girton College . Tickets may be purchased on the day at registration, however it would assist with catering arrangements if you could indicate on your booking form how many of your party are likely to require lunch. A free exhibition of Stokes Memorabilia will be open from 6.00-7.30pm at Pembroke College Dinner is at Pembroke College at 7.30pm. The price is £40.00 per person inclusive of wines. Cheques made payable to ‘University of Cambridge’ should accompany this booking form (see below).

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Visit the Molecular Expressions Website Galleria Photo Gallery ... Home George Gabriel Stokes Born in Ireland on August 13, 1819, George Stokes was the youngest of six children. His father, a rector, directed his early education before sending him to a school in Dublin. Stokes attended Bristol College in England, followed by Pembroke College at Cambridge University, where he studied mathematics. He graduated in 1841 and was bestowed with many honors, including a fellowship that enabled him to remain at Cambridge. In 1849, Stokes was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and spent the rest of his life working at the prestigious school. Throughout his career, Stokes emphasized the importance of experimentation and problem solving, rather than focusing solely on pure mathematics. His practical approach served him well and Stokes made important advances in several fields, most notably hydrodynamics and optics. An advocate of the wave theory of light, Stokes was one of the prominent nineteenth century scientists that believed in the concept of an ether permeating space, which he supposed was necessary for light waves to travel. Though the existence of an ether was later disproved, Stokes' efforts in the area helped pioneer the science of geodesy , the study of the Earth and its gravitational field.

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