Jeans theory
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James Jeans
English physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1877–1946)
Sir James Hopwood JeansOM FRS[1] (11 September 1877 – 16 September 1946[2]) was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer.
Solvay conference 1927 photo with names
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.[3]
Early life
Born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, the son of William Tulloch Jeans, a parliamentary correspondent and author.
Jeans was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Wilson's Grammar School,Camberwell and Trinity College, Cambridge.[6] As a gifted student, Jeans was counselled to take an aggressive approach to the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos competition:
Early in the Michaelmas term of 1896, Walker sent for Jeans and Hardy and advised them to take Part I of the Mathematical Tripos in two years.
He told them that he could not guarantee that they would come out