List of things named after George Gabriel Stokes
# List of things named after George Gabriel Stokes

Sir George Stokes (1819–1903) was an Anglo-Irish mathematical physicist whose career left a prolific body of work in mathematics and physics. Below is a collection of some of the things named after him.

## Physics

* Campbell–Stokes recorder
* Coriolis–Stokes force
* Stokes equation
* Stokes formula
* Stokes' law of sound attenuation
* Stokes line
* Stokes–Einstein (Stokes–Einstein–Sutherland) equation (translational diffusion)
   * Stokes–Einstein–Debye equation (rotational diffusion)

### Fluid dynamics

* Stokes approximation
* Navier–Stokes equations
* Stokes first problem
* Stokes second problem
* Stokes drift
* Stokes expansion, see section about Stokes expansion
* Stokes flow
* Stokes number
* Stokes' paradox
* Stokes radius
* Stokes stream function
* Stokes wave
* Stokes (unit)
* Stokes' law
* Stokeslet

### Optics

* Stokes operators (quantum)
* Stokes parameters
* Stokes relations
* Stokes shift
* Stokes vector
* Stokes lens

## Mathematics

* Navier–Stokes equations, see section on fluid dynamics
   * Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness
* Stokes' theorem
   * Kelvin–Stokes theorem
   * Generalized Stokes theorem
* Stokes operator
* Stokes phenomenon

## Astronomical features

* Stokes (lunar crater)
* Stokes (Martian crater)
