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Name: James Hopwood Jeans, Sir
Variant Name: Sir
Birth Date: September 11, 1877
Death Date: September 16, 1946
Place of Birth: Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
Place of Death: Dorking, Surrey, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: scientist, mathematician, physicist, astronomer

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The English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1877-1946) made important contributions to the development of quantum theory and to theoretical astrophysics, especially to the theory of stellar structure. On Sept. 11,...


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Sir James Hopwood Jeans ( 11 September 1877 – 16 September 1946 ) was a British physicist, astronomer and mathematician. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Stars in their Courses (1931) 1.2 Physics and Philosophy (1942) 2 Unsourced 3 External links //...


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Jeans, James Hopwood(1877–1946) James Hopwood Jeans, an English physicist and astronomer was educated at Merchant Taylor's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received high honors in mathematics in 1898. He taught mathematics...
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1877-1946 English astrophysicist best known for his popular books on astronomy and physics. Jeans made significant contributions toward the understanding of stability in rotating masses and was the first to propose matter's continual creation...
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Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS MA DSc ScD LLD[1] (September 11 1877 in Ormskirk, Lancashire – September 16 1946 in Dorking, Surrey) was a British physicist, astronomer and mathematician. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Wilson's...


 

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