Human Accomplishment: James Hopwood Jeans

an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician.

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Born

James Hopwood Jeans 11 September 1877 Ormskirk, Lancashire, England

Died

16 September 1946 (aged 69) Dorking, Surrey, England

Nationality

British

Known for

Jeans equations Jeans escape Jeans instability Jeans mass Jeans length Jeans's theorem Rayleigh–Jeans law Method of image charges Tidal hypothesis

Fields

Astronomy, mathematics, physics

Alma mater

Merchant Taylors' School ; Cambridge University

Awards

Smith's Prize (1901) Adams Prize (1917) Royal Medal (1919)

Institutions

Trinity College, Cambridge ; Princeton University

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Britain

era

1800+

Notable students

Ronald Fisher