Awards & Winners

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

Date of Birth 13-August-1819
Place of Birth Skreen
(Ireland, County Sligo)
Nationality United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
Profession Physicist, Mathematician
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet FRS, was a mathematician, physicist, politician and theologian. Born in Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at University of Cambridge, where he served as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903. Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics. He was secretary, then president, of the Royal Society.

Awards by Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet.

1893


Copley Medal
(For his researches and discoveries in physical science.)

1852


Rumford Medal
(For his discovery of the change in the refrangibility of light.)