Stokes is cool.
They named a law after him.
It's called Stokes' Law.
They weren't very imaginative.
Stokes studied drag. Not in drag, but drag. More appropriately, he pioneered some of what we rely upon (as engineers and scientists) to complete our day to day estimations. Know Stokes. Learn Stokes. Talk about Stokes. The professors eat it up. Well, maybe not.