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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet , was born on August 13, 1819, in County Sligo, Ireland . He held citizenship in both the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . Stokes was a mathematician, physicist, politician, and professor . He was educated at the University of Cambridge and Pembroke College, Cambridge .
Born as George Gabriel Stokes , he was supervised by William Hopkins during his doctoral studies . Stokes later advised notable students such as John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, and Horace Lamb .
His most notable works include the Navier–Stokes equations, Stokes' law of sound attenuation, and the Kelvin–Stokes theorem . Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, passed away on February 1, 1903, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire .
