1. James Jeans 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.
15 Facts About James Jeans
1. 2.
James Jeans told them that he could not guarantee that they would come out higher than fifteenth in the list of wranglers, but he understood that they would never regret it.
3.
Walker accordingly took James Jeans himself, and the result was a triumph:.
4.
James Jeans was elected Fellow of Trinity College in October 1901, and taught at Cambridge, but went to Princeton University in 1904 as a professor of applied mathematics.
5.
James Jeans made important contributions in many areas of physics, including quantum theory, the theory of radiation and stellar evolution.
6.
James Jeans, along with Arthur Eddington, is a founder of British cosmology.
7.
In 1928, James Jeans was the first to conjecture a steady state cosmology based on a hypothesized continuous creation of matter in the universe.
8.
In 1939, the Journal of the British Astronomical Association reported that James Jeans was going to stand as a candidate for parliament for the Cambridge University constituency.
9.
James Jeans wrote the book Physics and Philosophy where he explores the different views on reality from two different perspectives: science and philosophy.
10.
James Jeans married twice, first to the American poet Charlotte Tiffany Mitchell in 1907, who died, and then to the Austrian organist and harpsichordist Suzanne Hock in 1935.
11.
Susi and James Jeans had three children: George, Christopher, and Catherine.
12.
James Jeans died in 1947 with the presence of his wife and Joy Adamson, who suggested to the widow to create a death mask of James Jeans.
13.
One of James Jeans' major discoveries, named James Jeans length, is a critical radius of an interstellar cloud in space.
14.
James Jeans is credited with calculating the rate of atmospheric escape from a planet due to kinetic energy of the gas molecules, a process known as James Jeans escape.
15.
James Jeans espoused a philosophy of science rooted in the metaphysical doctrine of idealism and opposed to materialism in his speaking engagements and books.