Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (August 13, 1819, in Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland; February 1, 1901, in Cambridge, England) was a physicist and mathematician with contributions to solid mechanics and physical optics. He popularized the Stokes’ theorem in vector calculus and the theory of asymptotic expansions.
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Altenbach, H. (2020). Stokes, George Gabriel. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55771-6_118
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