Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903) was a prominent Irish physicist and mathematician known for his significant contributions to fluid mechanics, optics, and mathematical physics. He is best known for formulating Stokes' law, which describes the motion of spheres in a viscous medium, and for his work on the phenomenon of fluorescence and the Stokes shift.

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