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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

Irish mathematician and physicist1819 to 1903

Wikidata names William Hopkins as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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William Hopkins

Students on Wikidata2

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John William Strutt
born 1842
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Horace Lamb
born 1849

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataWilliam Hopkins
2 steps up
stated by WikidataAdam Sedgwick
3 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn Dawsonstated by WikidataThomas Jones
4 steps up
stated by WikidataEdward Waringstated by WikidataThomas Postlethwaite

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 26 people: 26 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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1835 to 1837
City of Bristol College
studied
1837 to 1841
Pembroke College
studied
1841 to 1851
University of Cambridge
worked
1851 to 1856
Royal School of Mines
worked
1856 to 1903
University of Cambridge
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, physicist, politician, theologian, university teacher
fields: mathematics, mechanics, physics, politics, theology
awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, 1851, Copley Medal, 1893, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, 1879, Helmholtz Medal, 1900, Rumford Medal, 1852, Actonian Prize, 1886, Gifford Lectures, 1891
member of: Royal Society of London, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Royal Society of Edinburgh, from 1865, National Academy of Sciences, from 1883, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 1898, Victoria Institute, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1888
notable works: Navier–Stokes equations, Stokes' law, Stokes' law of sound attenuation, Stokes' theorem, Stokes parameters, Stokes shift, Stokes flow, Stokes number, Stokes line
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@misc{academicancestry_Q155907,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q155907},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q155907