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James Jeans

Vereinigtes Königreich · Akademiker · Lebte 1877 bis 1946 · im Alter von 69

James Jeans wird in 46 Sprachen etwa 67 Mal am Tag gelesen.

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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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Stationen eines Lebens

1946Gestorben16. September 19461939Order of MeritAuszeichnung1938“Everything that has been said, and every conclusion that has been tentatively put forward, is quite frankly speculative and uncertain.”Eigene WorteThe closing sentences of the book, on p. 188 of Pelican Books 1938 reprint of 1931 2nd ed.

1937“And the substance out of which this bubble is blown, the soap-film, is empty space welded onto empty time.”Eigene Wortep. 100, 1937 ed.

“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.”Eigene Wortepp. 169-170, 1937 ed.

1931Franklin MedalAuszeichnung1930“From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.”Eigene Wortep. 134, 1930 ed.

“The tendency of modern physics is to resolve the whole material universe into waves, and nothing but waves.”Eigene WorteThe Mysterious Universe (1930)

1928“Into such a universe we have stumbled, if not exactly by mistake, at least as the result of what may properly be described as an accident.”Eigene Wortepp. 2-3. It was not Huxley, but Arthur Eddington, in The Nature of the Physical World (1928).

1923Guthrie LectureAuszeichnung1922Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical SocietyAuszeichnung1919Royal MedalAuszeichnung1917Adams PrizeAuszeichnungRoyal Society Bakerian MedalAuszeichnung1906Fellow of the Royal SocietyAuszeichnung1877Geboren11. September 1877

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In ihren eigenen Worten 10

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James Jeans
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10 Aussagen, neueste zuerst
  1. Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

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

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

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

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

    1937, p. 100, 1937 ed., Eigene Worte

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Auszeichnungen

Order of Merit1939
Franklin Medal1931
Guthrie Lecture1923
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society1922
Royal Medal1919
Royal Society Bakerian Medal1917
Adams Prize1917
Fellow of the Royal Society1906
Honorary Doctor of the University of Calcutta
Knight Bachelor
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi

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verstorben
Daten
Lebte 1877 bis 1946 · im Alter von 69

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