Sir george gabriel stokes biography for kids


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Born
13 August
Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland
Died
1 February
Cambridge, England
Summary
George Stokes established the science of hydrodynamics with his law of viscosity describing the velocity of a small sphere through a viscous fluid.

Biography

George Stokes' father, Gabriel Stokes, was the Protestant minister of the parish of Skreen in County Sligo.

Sir george gabriel stokes biography for kids

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    • His mother, Elizabeth Haughton, was the daughter of a minister of the church, so George Stokes' upbringing was a very religious one. He was the youngest of six children and every one of his three older brothers went on to become a priest.

    As the priest of the church in Cambridge which Stokes later attended wrote (see [18]):-

    Though he was never narrow in his faith and religious sympathies, he always held fast by the simple evangelical truths he learnt from his father
    In [4] the atmosphere in which George grew up is described in words which are more colourful than those which might be used today:-