Stokes

Stokes, SIR GEORGE GABRIEL (b. 1819), was born at Skreen, County Sligo, and educated at Cambridge, where he became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1849. He was secretary of the Royal Society (1854-85) and President (1885-90). He was elected Conservative member for Cambridge in 1887. His investigations in hydrodynamics, the theory of light, and other departments of mathematical physics, have given a great stimulus to scientific inquiry.