James Jeans

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Lebte 1877–1946, im Alter von 69United Kingdom

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1877–1946
Alter 69
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Aktualisiert 09.06.2026

Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS (* 11. September 1877 in Ormskirk, Lancashire; † 16. September 1946 in Dorking, Surrey) war ein englischer Physiker, Astronom und Mathematiker.

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James Jeans

sagte1938

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

— p. 19, Pelican Books 1938 reprint of 1931 2nd ed.

James Jeans

sagte1938

Everything that has been said, and every conclusion that has been tentatively put forward, is quite frankly speculative and uncertain.

— The closing sentences of the book, on p. 188 of Pelican Books 1938 reprint of 1931 2nd ed.

James Jeans

sagte1937

And the substance out of which this bubble is blown, the soap-film, is empty space welded onto empty time.

— p. 100, 1937 ed.

James Jeans

sagte1937

the universe can be best pictured, ... as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what, for want of a wider word, we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

— pp. 169-170, 1937 ed.

James Jeans

sagte1930

For, for aught we know, or for aught that the new science can say to the contrary, the gods which play the part of fate to the atoms of our brains may be our own minds.

— p. 29-30 of 1930 ed.

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