Sir James Jeans
A Biography
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- Author: E. A. Milne
- Date Published: September 2013
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107623330
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Originally published in 1952, this book by E. A. Milne examines the life and work of influential astrophysicist Sir James Jeans. The text includes reproductions of correspondence between Jeans and such luminaries as G. H. Hardy and G. E. Hale, and is introduced by a personal memoir by the publisher S. C. Roberts. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Jeans' work and the history of astrophysics.
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- Date Published: September 2013
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107623330
- length: 196 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.26kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Memoir by S. C. Roberts
1. Merchant Taylor's and Cambridge
2. Princeton, 1905–9
3. Return to England. The Adams Prize essay, 1909–19
4. Secretary of the Royal Society, 1919–29
5. Popular exposition, 1929–30
6. Later years, 1931–46
7. Science in Jeans's boyhood
8. The partition of energy
9. Rotating fluid masses
10. Star clusters
11. The equilibrium of the stars
12. Jeans and philosophy
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