* 13 August 1819, † 1 February 1903
George Gabriel Stokes was born on 13 August 1819 in Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland. George Stokes established the science of hydrodynamics with his law of viscosity describing the velocity of a small sphere through a viscous fluid. George Gabriel Stokes died on 1 February 1903 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.
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[6909] O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: “MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive”, http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/, 2014
