James Hopwood Jeans ( 1877 - 1946 )

Birth: Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire, England (11 September 1877) Death: His home in Dorking, Surrey (16 September 1946) Research Field: Physics, astronomy Education; Merchant Taylors School 1890-1896; Trinity College Cambridge 1896-1900; Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge 1901; MA 1903; Career; 1905-1909 Professor of Applied Mathematics at Princeton University USA; 1910-1912 Stokes lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Cambridge.