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* George Gabriel Stokes 1819 – 1903 ( England )
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Equations for fluid flow with friction were developed by Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes.
In his 1852 paper on the " Refrangibility " ( wavelength change ) of light, George Gabriel Stokes described the ability of fluorspar and uranium glass to change invisible light beyond the violet end of the visible spectrum into blue light.
George Gabriel Stokes became a champion of the entrainment interpretation, developing a model in which the aether might be ( by analogy with pine pitch ) rigid at very high frequencies and fluid at lower speeds.
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Lucasian Professor, a mathematician and physicist at the College who made important contributions to fluid dynamics
* May 15 – Jamestown: Christopher Newport, George Percy, Gabriel Archer, and others travel 6 days exploring along the James River up to the falls and Powhatan's village.
An alternative and mathematically convenient description is given by the Stokes parameters, introduced by George Gabriel Stokes in 1852.
George Smith Patton Jr. was born in San Gabriel, California in 1885, to George Smith Patton Sr. ( 1856 – 1927 ) and his wife Ruth Wilson ( 1861 – 1928 ), daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson.
* At the Episcopal Church of Our Savior in San Gabriel, California, there is a stained glass window depicting Patton as a version of Saint George.
In 1851, George Gabriel Stokes derived an expression for the frictional force ( also called drag force ) exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers ( e. g., very small particles ) in a continuous viscous fluid by changing the small fluid-mass limit of the generally unsolvable Navier-Stokes equations:
In physics, the Navier – Stokes equations, named after Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes, describe the motion of fluid substances.
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George Biddell Airy and George Gabriel Stokes had difficulty accepting Scott Russell's experimental observations because they could not be explained by the existing water wave theories.
It was originally formulated around the lives of three farmers ; Dan Archer, farming efficiently with little cash, Walter Gabriel, farming inefficiently with little cash, and George Fairbrother, a wealthy business man farming at a loss for tax purposes ( which one could do in those days ).
He edited Gabriel Pascal's film productions of two George Bernard Shaw plays, Pygmalion ( 1938 ) and Major Barbara ( 1941 ).
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George Stokes had shown that the mobility for a spherical particle with radius is, where is the dynamic viscosity of the fluid.
This modern form of Stokes ' theorem is a vast generalization of a classical result first discovered by Lord Kelvin, who communicated it to George Stokes in July 1850.
Also in 1847, another of Joule's presentations at the British Association in Oxford was attended by George Gabriel Stokes, Michael Faraday, and the precocious and maverick William Thomson, later to become Lord Kelvin, who had just been appointed professor of natural philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
Since the Earth is in motion, two main possibilities were considered: ( 1 ) The aether is stationary and only partially dragged by Earth ( proposed by Augustin-Jean Fresnel in 1818 ), or ( 2 ) the aether is completely dragged by Earth and thus shares its motion at Earth's surface ( proposed by George Gabriel Stokes in 1844 ).
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George and 1819
* 1819 – British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
Mary Anne ( alternatively Mary Ann or Marian ) Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 ), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
* Full biography: " Evans, Marian &# 91 ; George Eliot &# 93 ; ( 1819 – 1880 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2008
* George Robert Stephenson ( engineer ) ( 1819 – 1905 ), English civil engineer ( nephew of George Stephenson )
Instead, in April 1819 he was allowed to live in the French capital – as English critic George Saintsbury describes it – " in a garret furnished in the most Spartan fashion, with a starvation allowance and an old woman to look after him ", while the rest of the family moved to a house twenty miles outside Paris.
In 1819 the island of Funafuti, was named Ellice's Island ; the name Ellice was applied to all nine islands after the work of English hydrographer Alexander George Findlay ( 1812 – 1876 ).
The town of Milford was established in 1816 by George Reed, Marysville in 1819 by Samuel Culbertson, Richwood in 1832 by Philip Plumber, Kingsville in 1834, Somerville in 1835, Watkins and Arbelia in 1838, Newton in 1838 by David Paul, York Center in 1841, Frankfort in 1846, Unionville in 1847, Pharisburg in 1847, New California in 1853, Dover in 1854, Union Center in 1863, Broadway in 1865, Pottersburg in 1869, Peoria in 1870, Magnetic Springs in 1879, and Claibourne in 1881.
* 1898: A notice advertising sale of an area of land east of Cain's Lane says that " Earl Strafford " ( George Byng, 3rd Earl of Strafford ( 1830 – 1898 ) or Henry Byng, 4th Earl of Strafford ( 1831 – 1899 )) owned some adjacent land that in the 1819 map was marked as belonging to George Byng, Esq.
The Cheshire historian George Ormerod, writing in 1819, considered that this area contained a tilting ground for jousting.
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