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单词 Stokes, Sir George Gabriel (1819–1903)
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Stokes, Sir George Gabriel (1819–1903)

Physics
  • born in Ireland, who worked at Cambridge University all his life. He is best known for Stokes’ law, concerning the movement of objects in a fluid. A unit of kinematic viscosity is named after him.


Mathematics
  • who was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. His prolific mathematical research output arose mainly from study of physical processes such as hydrodynamics and hydrostatics, wind pressure systems, and spectrum analysis. As well as being one of Britain’s foremost scientists Stokes was unusually active in public life, as a member of Parliament for Cambridge University 1881–92, secretary of the Royal Society 1854–84, and then its President 1885–90.


Chemical Engineering
  • An Irish physicist and mathematician noted for his contributions to fluid mechanics. The youngest of six sons of a Protestant minister, he moved to Bristol at the age of 16 to pursue his studies, which prepared him for studying mathematics at Cambridge. Appointed as the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge in 1849, he studied the science of hydrodynamics and established his law of viscosity describing the velocity of a small sphere descending through a viscous fluid. He is best known for his work on fluid dynamics including his contribution to the Navier–Stokes’s equations. He also formulated Stokes’s law. A unit of kinematic viscosity is also named after him. A member of the Royal Society, he was first secretary and then president from 1885 to 1890.


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