Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, mathematician and astronomer, born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, in 1877. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929 and was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1925 to 1927, winning its Gold Medal. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was bracketed second wrangler, he was elected a Fellow of Trinity in 1901, went to Princeton in 1904 as a professor of applied mathematics and returned to Cambridge in 1910. He made important contributions to quantum theory, the theory of radiation and stellar evolution, and with Arthur Eddington is regarded as a founder of British cosmology.
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was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer
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He was taught as an undergraduate at Cambridge by J W L Glaisher, W W Rouse Ball, A N Whitehead, R A Herman and E T Whittaker.
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