Stokes, George Gabriel (1819-1903)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4023. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Born in Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland, became Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, best known for his work on hydrodynamics and Stokes' law of viscosity. In 1854 he explained the Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum as being caused by atoms in the outer layers of the Sun absorbing certain wavelengths, but when KIRCHHOFF later published the same explanation Stokes yielded priority to his more comple...

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