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James Jeans

1877 - 1946

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Sir James Hopwood Jeans (11 September 1877 – 16 September 1946) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Jeans is the 175th most popular physicist (up from 312th in 2019), the 452nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 971st in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, James Jeans ranks 175 out of 851. Before him are François Englert, George E. Smith, Polykarp Kusch, Edmond Becquerel, Martinus J. G. Veltman, and Leon Cooper. After him are Julius von Mayer, Herbert Kroemer, Martin Lewis Perl, Richard E. Taylor, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, and Burton Richter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, James Jeans ranks 11. Before him are Felix Dzerzhinsky, Frederick Soddy, Francis William Aston, Wilhelm Frick, Joan Gamper, and Heinrich Otto Wieland. After him are Frank Marshall, Edgar Cayce, Raoul Dufy, Gabriele Münter, Louis Renault, and G. H. Hardy. Among people deceased in 1946, James Jeans ranks 28. Before him are Gertrude Stein, Karl Haushofer, Draža Mihailović, Ferenc Szálasi, Paul Langevin, and Gilbert N. Lewis. After him are Ananda Mahidol, Karl Hermann Frank, Andrey Vlasov, Kurt Daluege, László Moholy-Nagy, and Wilhelm Marx.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Jeans ranks 452 out of 8,785. Before him are Elizabeth Woodville (1437), Jacqueline Bisset (1944), Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (1982), Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (1751), David Bradley (1942), and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828). After him are Gregory Winter (1951), William Crookes (1832), Thomas Paine (1737), Hugh Grant (1960), George Porter (1920), and Nigel Mansell (1953).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, James Jeans ranks 28. Before him are William Henry Bragg (1862), Thomas Young (1773), Peter Higgs (1929), Roger Penrose (1931), Henry Moseley (1887), and John Kendrew (1917). After him are David Brewster (1781), Andrew Huxley (1917), John Cockcroft (1897), William Shockley (1910), C. P. Snow (1905), and Osborne Reynolds (1842).

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