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George Gabriel Stokes

Born

in Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland

August 13, 1819

Died

February 01, 1903

Genre

Nonfiction, Physics

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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, PRS (1819 – 1903) was an Irish English physicist and mathematician. He spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903. As a physicist, Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid mechanics, including the Navier–Stokes equations and to physical optics, with notable works on polarization and fluorescence. As a mathematician, he popularised "Stokes' theorem" in vector calculus and contributed to the theory of asymptotic expansions. Stokes, along with Felix Hoppe-Seyler, first demonstrated the oxygen transport function of hemoglobin and showed color changes produced by aeration of hemoglobin solutions. ...more

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	Conditional Immortality: A Help To Sceptics it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Light. Second Course, on Light, as a Means of Investigation. Delived at Aberdeen in December, 1884 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burnett Lectures, on Light: Second Course, on Light as a Means of Investigation, Delivered at Aberdeen in December, 1884 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Natural Theology (Gifford Lectures, 1891.) did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1979 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catalogue of the manuscript collections of Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs in Cambridge University Library by George Gabriel Stokes, William Thomson, David B. Wilson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes by George Gabriel Stokes, Joseph Larmor (Compilation) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mathematical and Physical Papers 5 Volume Paperback Set 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, bart. by George Gabriel Stokes, Joseph Larmor (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On light: Third course, on the beneficial effects of light. Delivered at Aberdeen in November, 1885 by George Gabriel Stokes, Sir George Gabriel Stokes 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.”
― George Gabriel Stokes

tags: conservation-of-energy, creation, impossibility, motion, reason, science, think

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“[E]volution is not a cause, but the description of a process … Can we in any way explain the origin of species? Are we to suppose that each species, or what we regard as a species, originated in the fiat of an almighty power? Or are we to suppose that we are to go indefinitely backwards, and affirm that a chain of secondary causation is to be continued indefinitely backwards? … The treatment of evolution as a cause, capable of leading us on indefinitely, tends to shut out the idea of a First Cause; its treatment as a possible mode of sequence, leading us a step or two onwards, still leaves the mind directed towards a First Cause, though ‘Clouds and darkness are round about Him.’ [cf. Psalm 97] … Remember, Evolution does not mean a cause.”
― George Gabriel Stokes, Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart;, Sc; D., LL. D., D. C. L., Past Pres; R. S, Vol. 2

tags: causality, creation, creator, evolution

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