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Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1925 to 1927, and won its Gold Medal.
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science · English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (1877–1946) · mathematician · physicist · astronomer · writer · university teacher · also James Hopwood Jeans, James Jeans, Sir James Jeans, Sir James Hopwood Jeans, James H. Jeans, James H Jeans
Born 11 September 1877 · Died 16 September 1946 · Q315545
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Summarized the philosophical conclusions of the book, "Jeans argues that we must give up science's long-cherished materialistic and mechanical worldview, which posits that nature operates like a machine and consists s
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“Shrouds of the Night: Masks of the Milky Way and Our Awesome New View of Galaxies”
Died 1946-09-16.
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“Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.”
In the presence of his wife and Joy Adamson, who suggested to the widow to create a death mask of Jeans
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Awarded Order of Merit (1939).
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Or 1940, did not take place until 1945, and without his involvement
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The Journal of the British Astronomical Association reported that Jeans was going to stand as a candidate for parliament for the Cambridge University constituency
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For which he gave the Lorimer Lecture: The Depths of Space
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He then married the Austrian organist and harpsichordist Susanne Hock (better known as Susi Jeans) in 1935.
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Jeans was invited to deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on Through Space and Time
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Won Franklin Medal (1931).
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Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1929).
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Wrote a number of books for the lay public, including The Stars in Their Courses (1931), The Universe Around Us, Through Space and Time (1934), The New Background of Science (1933), and The Mysterious Universe
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Jeans was the first to conjecture a steady state cosmology based on a hypothesized continuous creation of matter in the universe
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Career landmark: President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1925–1927).
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Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1923).
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Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1922).
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Won Royal Medal (1919).
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Awarded Adams Prize (1917).
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Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1917).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1906).
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Born 1877-09-11.
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