Jeans, Sir James (Hopwood)

Jeans, Sir James (Hopwood)
born Sept. 11, 1877, London, Eng.
died Sept. 16, 1946, Dorking, Surrey

British physicist and mathematician.

After teaching at Cambridge and Princeton, he worked as a research associate at the Mount Wilson Observatory (1923–44). He proposed that matter was continuously created throughout the universe (see steady-state theory). He wrote on a wide variety of phenomena but is perhaps best known as a writer of popular books about astronomy.

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