George Gabriel Stokes：54 years on Lucasian chair

 

The Lucasian Chair will celebrate the 344th anniversary of its founding December 2007.This chair of Mathematics is probably the most famous academic chair at Cambridge, or in the world”.

Sir Isaac Newton is the second holder of the chair, his teacher the first one; Newton is the most famous Lucasian professor. Now it is Professor Stephen Hawking(1942----) who have holded  the  chair for 27years  from 1980.

Among the 17 Lucasian professor, George Gabriel Stokes(13 Aug 1819-1 Feb 1903) is the only one who have held the famous academic chair for half a century.Sir George Stokes,a  Physics & Fluid Mechanics professor, took the Chair in 1849, until his death in 1903. Becoming famous scientist for his part in the Navier-Stokes equations in fluid dynamics, Stokes restored the Lucasian Chair to the level that Newton had established.”He was the youngest children of his parents, three brothers and two sisters older than him. His father was a Protestant minister, his mother a daughter of a minister of a church.

Scientists and engineers can find Stokes Law, Stokes Theorem, Stokes Phenomenon, Stokes conjecture and the Navier-Stokes equations in scientific works of mathematics, physics and engineering.

In physical geodesy publics , Stokes formula for geodetic boundary value problem

will continue its using  in the principles of geodetic researches.

 

 

References:

http://www.lucasianchair.org/brief.html

http://www.cmde.dcu.ie/Stokes/GGStokes.html

 

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