Stokes

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Stokes may refer to the following:

• George Gabriel Stokes (1819–1903), Irish mathematician and physicist
  • Stokes theorem
  • Navier-Stokes equations
  • Stokes law
  • Stokes (unit), the cgs unit of kinematic viscosity
  • Stokes radius
  • Stokes shift
  • Stokes (lunar crater)
  • Stokes (crater on Mars)
• Alexander Rawson Stokes (Alec), 1919–2003, English scientist
• Jack Stokes, 1923-2000, Canadian politician, first NDP Speaker of the Ontario Legislature, 1977 to 1981.
• Carl B. Stokes, 1927-1996, the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.

See also

• Stoke (disambiguation)

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