James Hopwood Jeans
Physicist, Astronomer
1877 – 1946
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Who was James Hopwood Jeans?
Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS MA DSc ScD LLD was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician.
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- Born
- Sep 11, 1877
Ormskirk - Also known as
- James Hopwood Sir Jeans
- James Jeans
- Sir James Jeans
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- University of Cambridge
- Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
- Employment
- Princeton University
- Secretary, Royal Society
(1919 - 1929) - Vice President, Royal Society
(1938 - )
- Died
- Sep 16, 1946
Dorking
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on July 23, 2013
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