Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

✶August 13, 1819

†February 1, 1903

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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, was an Irish mathematician and physicist. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent his entire career at the University of Cambridge, where he served as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics for 54 years—from 1849 until his death in 1903—the longest tenure held by any Lucasian Professor.

Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)

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