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James Hopwood Jeans

Author · born September 11, 1877 · died 1946

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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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  1. 28Received the Fellow of the Royal SocietyMay 1, 1906
  2. ~42Received the Royal Medal1919
  3. ~45Received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society1922
  4. ~62Received the Order of Merit1939

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