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James Hopwood Jeans

1877 – 1946 · aged 69

British mathematician and astronomer (1877 – 1946)

Born
11 Sept 1877 · Ormskirk
Died
16 Sept 1946 · Dorking

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 79 years
  1. 11 Sept 1877BornBorn in Ormskirk
  2. 1906AwardFellow of the Royal Society
  3. 1917AwardAdams Prize
  4. 1917AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
  5. 1919AwardRoyal Medal
  6. 1922AwardGold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
  7. 1923AwardGuthrie Lecture
  8. 1925 – 1927RolePresident of the Royal Astronomical Society
  9. 1929AwardHonorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
  10. 1931AwardFranklin Medal
  11. 1939AwardOrder of Merit
  12. 16 Sept 1946DiedDied in Dorking

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1877 – 1946).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials

Biography

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.

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