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Where was Stokes born?

  • Dublin

  • Belfast

  • County Sligo

  • Cork

Answer

County Sligo is the birthplace of George Stokes, an Irish mathematician and physicist who lived from 1819 to 1903. Stokes made significant contributions to fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematics. He is best known for Stokes' theorem, which relates a line integral around a closed curve to a surface integral over the enclosed surface.
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