Mathematician:James Hopwood Jeans

Mathematician
Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician.

Nationality
British

History

 * Born: 11 September 1877 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
 * Died: 16 September 1946 in Dorking, Surrey, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Rayleigh-Jeans Law (with )
 * Jeans Length
 * Jeans Instability

Publications

 * 1904: The Dynamical Theory of Gases
 * 1906: Theoretical Mechanics
 * 1908: Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism
 * 1919: Problems of Cosmology and Stellar Dynamics
 * 1926: Atomicity and Quanta
 * 1928: Astronomy and Cosmogony
 * 1929: The Universe Around Us
 * 1930: The Mysterious Universe
 * 1931: The Stars in their Courses
 * 1933: The New Background of Science
 * 1934: Through Space and Time
 * 1937: Science and Music
 * 1940: An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases
 * 1942: Physics and Philosophy
 * 1947: The Growth of Physical Science

Notable Quotes

 * The Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
 * -- Quoted in : They Say: What Say They? : Let Them Say

Also known as
Often referred to with his honorific: Sir James (Hopwood) Jeans