1819-1903 Irish physicist who developed Stokes' Law, which describes the motion of a sphere in a viscous liquid. Stokes worked with and described other problems concerning fluid flow, including the motions of and forces acting upon small bodies...

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (13 August 1819–1 February 1903) was a mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier-Stokes equations), optics, and mathematical physics...