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Sir George Gabriel Stokes
(13 Aug 1819 - 1 Feb 1903)
British theoretical physicist known for his law of viscosity, and for Stokes' theorem, in vector analysis. Stokes also worked in optics, investigated the nature of fluorescence and was a founder of geodesy with his study of variations in gravity.
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Science Quotes by Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1)
I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.
— Sir George Gabriel Stokes
note in Phil. Trans. 479 (1852)
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