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Sir
George Stokes
Bt FRS
Born
George Gabriel Stokes

(1819-08-13)13 August 1819
Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland
Died1 February 1903(1903-02-01) (aged 83)
Cambridge, England
Alma materPembroke College, Cambridge
Known forStokes' theorem
Navier–Stokes equations
Stokes' law
Stokes's law of sound attenuation
Stokes shift
Stokes number
Stokes problem
Stokes relations
Stokes phenomenon
Stokes parameters
Stokes wave
AwardsSmith's Prize (1841)
Rumford Medal (1852)
Actonian Prize (1886)
Copley Medal (1893)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics and physics
InstitutionsPembroke College, Cambridge
Academic advisorsWilliam Hopkins
Notable studentsLord Rayleigh
Horace Lamb
Signature

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, FRS (/stoʊks/; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish physicist and mathematician. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903. As a physicist, Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid mechanics, including the Navier–Stokes equations; and to physical optics, with notable works on polarization and fluorescence. As a mathematician, he popularised "Stokes' theorem" in vector calculus and contributed to the theory of asymptotic expansions. Stokes, along with Felix Hoppe-Seyler, first demonstrated the oxygen transport function of haemoglobin, and showed colour changes produced by the aeration of haemoglobin solutions.

Stokes was made a baronet by the British monarch in 1889. In 1893 he received the Royal Society's Copley Medal, then the most prestigious scientific prize in the world, "for his researches and discoveries in physical science". He represented Cambridge University in the British House of Commons from 1887 to 1892, sitting as a Conservative. Stokes also served as president of the Royal Society from 1885 to 1890 and was briefly the Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Stokes's extensive correspondence and his work as Secretary of the Royal Society has led him to be referred to as a gatekeeper of Victorian science, with his contributions surpassing his own published papers. [1]

Biography[edit]

George Stokes was the youngest son of the Reverend Gabriel Stokes (died 1834), a clergyman in the Church of Ireland who served as rector of Skreen in County Sligo, and his wife Elizabeth Haughton, daughter of the Reverend John Haughton. Stokes's home life was strongly influenced by his father's evangelical Protestantism: three of his brothers entered the Church, of whom the most eminent was John Whitley Stokes, Archdeacon of Armagh.[2] Alongside a lifelong commitment to his Protestant faith, Stokes's childhood in Skreen had a strong influence on his later decision to pursue fluid dynamics as a research area.[3] His daughter, Isabella Humphreys, wrote that her father "told me that he was nearly carried away by one of these great waves when bathing as a boy off the coast of Sligo, and this first attracted his attention to waves".[4]

John and George were always close, and George lived with John while attending school in Dublin. Of all his family he was closest to his sister Elizabeth. Their mother was remembered in the family as "beautiful but very stern". After attending schools in Skreen, Dublin and Bristol, in 1837 Stokes matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Four years later he graduated as senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman, achievements that earned him election as a fellow of the college.[5]

In accordance with the college statutes, Stokes had to resign the fellowship when he married in 1857. Twelve years later, under new statutes, he was re-elected to the fellowship and he retained that place until 1902, when on the day before his 83rd birthday, he was elected as the college's Master. Stokes did not hold that position for long, for he died at Cambridge on 1 February the following year,[6] and was buried in the Mill Road cemetery. There is also a memorial to him in the north aisle at Westminster Abbey.[7]

Career[edit]

In 1849, Stokes was appointed to the Lucasian professorship of mathematics at Cambridge, a position he held until his death in 1903. On 1 June 1899, the jubilee of this appointment was celebrated there in a ceremony attended by numerous delegates from European and American universities. A commemorative gold medal was presented to Stokes by the chancellor of the university and marble busts of Stokes by Hamo Thornycroft were formally offered to Pembroke College and to the university by Lord Kelvin. At 54 years, Stokes's tenure as the Lucasian Professor was the longest in history.

Stokes, who was made a baronet in 1889, further served his university by representing it in parliament from 1887 to 1892 as one of the two members for the Cambridge University constituency. In 1885–1890 he was also president of the Royal Society, of which he had been one of the secretaries since 1854. As he was also Lucasian Professor at this time, Stokes was the first person to hold all three positions simultaneously; Newton held the same three, although not at the same time.[6]

Stokes was the oldest of the trio of natural philosophers, James Clerk Maxwell and Lord Kelvin being the other two, who especially contributed to the fame of the Cambridge school of mathematical physics in the middle of the 19th century.

Stokes's original work began about 1840, and is distinguished for its quantity and quality. The Royal Society's catalogue of scientific papers gives the titles of over a hundred memoirs by him published down to 1883. Some of these are only brief notes, others are short controversial or corrective statements, but many are long and elaborate treatises.[8]

Contributions to science[edit]

Stokes at a later age

In scope, Stokes's work covered a wide range of physical inquiry but, as Marie Alfred Cornu remarked in his Rede Lecture of 1899,[9] the greater part of it was concerned with waves and the transformations imposed on them during their passage through various media.[10]

Fluid dynamics[edit]

Stokes's first published papers, which appeared in 1842 and 1843, were on the steady motion of incompressible fluids and some cases of fluid motion.[11][12] These were followed in 1845 by one on the friction of fluids in motion and the equilibrium and motion of elastic solids,[13] and in 1850 by another on the effects of the internal friction of fluids on the motion of pendulums.[14] To the theory of sound he made several contributions, including a discussion of the effect of wind on the intensity of sound[15] and an explanation of how the intensity is influenced by the nature of the gas in which the sound is produced.[16] These inquiries together put the science of fluid dynamics on a new footing, and provided a key not only to the explanation of many natural phenomena, such as the suspension of clouds in the air, and the subsidence of ripples and waves in water, but also to the solution of practical problems, such as the flow of water in rivers and channels, and the skin resistance of ships.[10]

Creeping flow[edit]

Main article: Stokes' law
Creeping flow past a sphere: streamlines and forces.

Stokes's work on fluid motion and viscosity led to his calculating the terminal velocity for a sphere falling in a viscous medium. This became known as Stokes' law. He derived an expression for the frictional force (also called drag force) exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers.[17]

His work is the basis of the falling sphere viscometer, in which the fluid is stationary in a vertical glass tube. A sphere of known size and density is allowed to descend through the liquid. If correctly selected, it reaches terminal velocity, which can be measured by the time it takes to pass two marks on the tube. Electronic sensing can be used for opaque fluids. Knowing the terminal velocity, the size and density of the sphere, and the density of the liquid, Stokes's law can be used to calculate the viscosity of the fluid. A series of steel ball bearings of different diameters is normally used in the classic experiment to improve the accuracy of the calculation. The school experiment uses glycerine as the fluid, and the technique is used industrially to check the viscosity of fluids used in processes.[citation needed]

The same theory explains why small water droplets (or ice crystals) can remain suspended in air (as clouds) until they grow to a critical size and start falling as rain (or snow and hail). Similar use of the equation can be made in the settlement of fine particles in water or other fluids.[citation needed]

"stokes", the CGS unit of kinematic viscosity, was named in recognition of his work.

Light[edit]

Perhaps his best-known researches are those which deal with the wave theory of light. His optical work began at an early period in his scientific career. His first papers on the aberration of light appeared in 1845 and 1846,[18][19] and were followed in 1848 by one on the theory of certain bands seen in the spectrum.[20][10]

In 1849 he published a long paper on the dynamical theory of diffraction, in which he showed that the plane of polarisation must be perpendicular to the direction of propagation.[21] Two years later he discussed the colours of thick plates.[22][10]

Stokes also investigated George Airy's mathematical description of rainbows.[23] Airy's findings involved an integral that was awkward to evaluate. Stokes expressed the integral as a divergent series, which were little understood. However, by cleverly truncating the series (i.e., ignoring all except the first few terms of the series), Stokes obtained an accurate approximation to the integral that was far easier to evaluate than the integral itself.[24] Stokes's research on asymptotic series led to fundamental insights about such series.[25]

Fluorescence[edit]

Fluorspar

In 1852, in his famous paper on the change of wavelength of light, he described the phenomenon of fluorescence, as exhibited by fluorspar and uranium glass, materials which he viewed as having the power to convert invisible ultra-violet radiation into radiation of longer wavelengths that are visible.[26] The Stokes shift, which describes this conversion, is named in Stokes's honour. A mechanical model, illustrating the dynamical principle of Stokes's explanation was shown. The offshoot of this, Stokes line, is the basis of Raman scattering. In 1883, during a lecture at the Royal Institution, Lord Kelvin said he had heard an account of it from Stokes many years before, and had repeatedly but vainly begged him to publish it.[27]

Polarization[edit]

A calcite crystal laid upon a paper with some letters showing the double refraction

In the same year, 1852, there appeared the paper on the composition and resolution of streams of polarised light from different sources,[28] and in 1853 an investigation of the metallic reflection exhibited by certain non-metallic substances.[29] The research was to highlight the phenomenon of light polarisation. About 1860 he was engaged in an inquiry on the intensity of light reflected from, or transmitted through, a pile of plates;[30] and in 1862 he prepared for the British Association a valuable report on double refraction,[10] a phenomenon where certain crystals show different refractive indices along different axes.[31] Perhaps the best known crystal is Iceland spar, transparent calcite crystals.

A paper on the long spectrum of the electric light bears the same date,[32] and was followed by an inquiry into the absorption spectrum of blood.[10][33]

Chemical analysis[edit]

The chemical identification of organic bodies by their optical properties was treated in 1864;[34] and later, in conjunction with the Rev. William Vernon Harcourt, he investigated the relation between the chemical composition and the optical properties of various glasses, with reference to the conditions of transparency and the improvement of achromatic telescopes.[35] A still later paper connected with the construction of optical instruments discussed the theoretical limits to the aperture of microscope objectives.[36][10]

Ophthalmology[edit]

In 1849, Stokes invented the Stokes lens to detect astigmatism.[37] It is a lens combination consisted of equal but opposite power cylindrical lenses attached together in such a way so that the lenses can be rotated relative to one another.[38]

Other work[edit]

Crookes Radiometer

In other areas of physics may be mentioned his paper on the conduction of heat in crystals (1851)[39] and his inquiries in connection with Crookes radiometer;[40] his explanation of the light border frequently noticed in photographs just outside the outline of a dark body seen against the sky (1882);[41] and, still later, his theory of the x-rays, which he suggested might be transverse waves travelling as innumerable solitary waves, not in regular trains.[42] Two long papers published in 1849 – one on attractions and Clairaut's theorem,[43] and the other on the variation of gravity at the surface of the Earth (1849) – Stokes's gravity formula[44]—also demand notice, as do his mathematical memoirs on the critical values of sums of periodic series (1847)[45] and on the numerical calculation of a class of definite integrals and infinite series (1850)[46] and his discussion of a differential equation relating to the breaking of railway bridges (1849),[47][10] research related to his evidence given to the Royal Commission on the Use of Iron in Railway structures after the Dee Bridge disaster of 1847.

Unpublished research[edit]

Many of Stokes's discoveries were not published, or were only touched upon in the course of his oral lectures. One such example is his work in the theory of spectroscopy.[10]

Lord Kelvin

In his presidential address to the British Association in 1871, Lord Kelvin stated his belief that the application of the prismatic analysis of light to solar and stellar chemistry had never been suggested directly or indirectly by anyone else when Stokes taught it to him at Cambridge University some time prior to the summer of 1852, and he set forth the conclusions, theoretical and practical, which he learnt from Stokes at that time, and which he afterwards gave regularly in his public lectures at Glasgow.[48]

Kirchhoff

These statements, containing as they do the physical basis on which spectroscopy rests, and the way in which it is applicable to the identification of substances existing in the sun and stars, make it appear that Stokes anticipated Gustav Kirchhoff by at least seven or eight years. Stokes, however, in a letter published some years after the delivery of this address, stated that he had failed to take one essential step in the argument—not perceiving that emission of light of definite wavelength not merely permitted, but necessitated, absorption of light of the same wavelength. He modestly disclaimed "any part of Kirchhoff's admirable discovery," adding that he felt some of his friends had been over-zealous in his cause.[49] It must be said, however, that English men of science have not accepted this disclaimer in all its fullness, and still attribute to Stokes the credit of having first enunciated the fundamental principles of spectroscopy.[10]

In another way, too, Stokes did much for the progress of mathematical physics. Soon after he was elected to the Lucasian chair he announced that he regarded it as part of his professional duties to help any member of the university with difficulties he might encounter in his mathematical studies, and the assistance rendered was so real that pupils were glad to consult him, even after they had become colleagues, on mathematical and physical problems in which they found themselves at a loss. Then during the thirty years he acted as secretary of the Royal Society, he exercised an enormous if inconspicuous influence on the advancement of mathematical and physical science, not only directly by his own investigations, but indirectly by suggesting problems for inquiry and inciting men to attack them, and by his readiness to give encouragement and help.[10]

Contributions to engineering[edit]

The Dee Bridge after its collapse

Stokes was involved in several investigations into railway accidents, especially the Dee Bridge disaster in May 1847, and he served as a member of the subsequent Royal Commission into the use of cast iron in railway structures. He contributed to the calculation of the forces exerted by moving engines on bridges. The bridge failed because a cast iron beam was used to support the loads of passing trains. Cast iron is brittle in tension or bending, and many other similar bridges had to be demolished or reinforced.

Fallen Tay Bridge from the north

He appeared as an expert witness at the Tay Bridge disaster, where he gave evidence about the effects of wind loads on the bridge. The centre section of the bridge (known as the High Girders) was completely destroyed during a storm on 28 December 1879, while an express train was in the section, and everyone aboard died (more than 75 victims). The Board of Inquiry listened to many expert witnesses, and concluded that the bridge was "badly designed, badly built and badly maintained".[50]

As a result of his evidence, he was appointed a member of the subsequent Royal Commission into the effect of wind pressure on structures. The effects of high winds on large structures had been neglected at that time, and the commission conducted a series of measurements across Britain to gain an appreciation of wind speeds during storms, and the pressures they exerted on exposed surfaces.

Work on religion[edit]

Skreen, Church of Ireland in County Sligo

Stokes generally held conservative religious values and beliefs. In 1886, he became president of the Victoria Institute, which had been founded to defend evangelical Christian principles against challenges from the new sciences, especially the Darwinian theory of biological evolution. He gave the 1891 Gifford lecture on natural theology.[51][52] He was also the vice-president of the British and Foreign Bible Society and was actively involved in doctrinal debates concerning missionary work.[53] However, although his religious views were mostly orthodox, he was unusual among Victorian evangelicals in rejecting eternal punishment in hell, and instead was a proponent of Christian conditionalism.[54]

As President of the Victoria Institute, Stokes wrote: "We all admit that the book of Nature and the book of Revelation come alike from God, and that consequently there can be no real discrepancy between the two if rightly interpreted. The provisions of Science and Revelation are, for the most part, so distinct that there is little chance of collision. But if an apparent discrepancy should arise, we have no right on principle, to exclude either in favour of the other. For however firmly convinced we may be of the truth of revelation, we must admit our liability to err as to the extent or interpretation of what is revealed; and however strong the scientific evidence in favour of a theory may be, we must remember that we are dealing with evidence which, in its nature, is probable only, and it is conceivable that wider scientific knowledge might lead us to alter our opinion".[55]

Personal life[edit]

Stokes married Mary Susanna Robinson, the only daughter of Irish astronomer Rev Thomas Romney Robinson, at St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh on 4 July 1857. They had five children: Arthur Romney, who inherited the baronetcy; Susanna Elizabeth, who died in infancy; Isabella Lucy (Mrs Laurence Humphry) who contributed the personal memoir of her father in "Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late George Gabriel Stokes, Bart"; Dr William George Gabriel, physician, a troubled man who committed suicide aged 30 while temporarily insane; and Dora Susanna, who died in infancy. His male line and hence his baronetcy have since become extinct.

Legacy and honours[edit]

Further information: List of things named after George Gabriel Stokes

Publications[edit]

Stokes's mathematical and physical papers (see external links) were published in a collected form in five volumes; the first three (Cambridge, 1880, 1883, and 1901) under his own editorship, and the two last (Cambridge, 1904 and 1905) under that of Sir Joseph Larmor, who also selected and arranged the Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of Stokes published at Cambridge in 1907.[65]

  • Volumes I-V of Mathematical and Physical Papers (1880-1905)
    Volumes I-V of Mathematical and Physical Papers (1880-1905)
  • Title page to Volume I of Mathematical and Physical Papers (1880)
    Title page to Volume I of Mathematical and Physical Papers (1880)
  • Table of contents to Volume I of Mathematical and Physical Papers (1880)
    Table of contents to Volume I of Mathematical and Physical Papers (1880)
  • First page of Volume I of Mathematical and Physical Papers (1880)
    First page of Volume I of Mathematical and Physical Papers (1880)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  12. ^ Stokes, G.G. (1843). "On some cases of fluid motion". Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 8: 105–137.
  13. ^ Stokes, G.G. (1845). "On the theories of the internal friction of fluids in motion and of the equilibrium and motion of elastic solids". Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 8: 287–319.
  14. ^ Stokes, G. G. (1851). "On the effect of internal friction of fluids on the motion of pendulums". Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 9, part ii: 8–106. Bibcode:1851TCaPS...9....8S.
  15. ^ Stokes, G.G. (1858). "On the effect of wind on the intensity of sound". Report of the Twenty-seventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held at Dublin in August and September 1857: Notices and Abstracts of Miscellaneous Communications to the Sections. Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1833). London, England: John Murray. pp. 22–23.
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  21. ^ Stokes, G. G. (1849). "On the dynamical theory of diffraction". Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 9: 1–62.
  22. ^ Stokes, G.G. (1851). "On the colours of thick plates". Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 9 (part ii): 147–176. Bibcode:1851TCaPS...9..147S.
  23. ^ See:
  24. ^ See:
  25. ^ See, for example, Wikipedia's articles "Stokes line" and "asymptotic expansions" as well as the obituary of mathematician Robert Balson Dingle (1926–2010), who investigated asymptotic series.
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  27. ^ Thomson, William (2 February 1883). "The size of atoms". Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution, with abstracts of the discourses. 10: 185–213. ; see pp. 207–208.
  28. ^ Stokes, G. G. (1852). "On the composition and resolution of streams of polarized light from different sources". Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 9: 399–416. Bibcode:1851TCaPS...9..399S.
  29. ^ Stokes, G. G. (1853). "On the metallic reflection exhibited by certain nonmetallic substances". Philosophical Magazine. 4th series. 6: 393–403. doi:10.1080/14786445308647395.
  30. ^ Stokes, George G. (1862). "On the intensity of the light reflected from or transmitted through a pile of plates". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 11: 545–556. doi:10.1098/rspl.1860.0119.
  31. ^ Stokes, G. G. (1863). "Report on double refraction". Report of the Thirty-second Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held at Cambridge in October 1862. London, England: John Murray. pp. 253–282.
  32. ^ Stokes, G. G. (1862). "On the long spectrum of electric light". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 152: 599–619. doi:10.1098/rstl.1862.0030.
  33. ^ In 1862, the German physiologist Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825–1895) had examined the absorption spectrum of blood: However, Hoppe did not provide an illustration of blood's absorption spectrum, which Stokes did provide:
  34. ^ Stokes, G. G. (1864). "On the application of the optical properties of bodies to the detection and discrimination of organic substances". Journal of the Chemical Society. 17: 304–318. doi:10.1039/js8641700304.
  35. ^ Stokes, G. G. (1872). "Notice of the researches of the late Rev. William Vernon Harcourt, on the conditions of transparency in glass, and the connexion between the chemical constitution and optical properties of different glasses". Report of the Forty-first Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held at Edinburgh in August 1871: Notices and Abstracts of Miscellaneous Communications to the Sections. Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1833). London, England: John Murray. pp. 38–41.
  36. ^ Stokes, G. G. (July 1878). "On the question of a theoretical limit to the apertures of microscopic objectives". Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. 1 (3): 139–142. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2818.1878.tb05472.x.
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