George Gabriel Stokes
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, (13 August 1819–1 February 1903), was a mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier-Stokes Equation), optics, and mathematical physics (including Stokes' theorem). He was secretary, then president, of the Royal Society.