James Jeans

Sir
James Jeans
OM FRS
Born
James Hopwood Jeans

(1877-09-11)11 September 1877
Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
Died16 September 1946(1946-09-16) (aged 69)
Dorking, Surrey, England
Alma materMerchant Taylors' School; Cambridge University
Known forJeans equations
Jeans escape
Jeans instability
Jeans mass
Jeans length
Jeans's theorem
Rayleigh–Jeans law
Method of image charges
Tidal hypothesis
AwardsSmith's Prize (1901)
Adams Prize (1917)
Royal Medal (1919)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy, mathematics, physics
InstitutionsTrinity College, Cambridge; Princeton University
Notable studentsRonald Fisher

Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS[1] (11 September 1877 – 16 September 1946[2]) was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician.

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