Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, , was a British physicist and mathematician. Born in Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he served as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903. In physics, Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics and to physical optics. In mathematics he formulated the first version of what is now known as Stokes' theorem and contributed to the theory of asymptotic expansions. He served as secretary, then president, of the Royal Society of London.
[George Gabriel Stokes, Natural theology: The Gifford lectures, delivered before the University of Edinburgh in 1893, Adamant Media Corporation, 1893, 1421205122, 4]
