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RefNoEC/1906/07
Previous numbersCert XII, 224
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TitleJeans, Sir James Hopwood: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationProfessor of Mathematics. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Author of 'A Treatise of the Dynamical Theory of Gases' (Cambridge University Press, 1904), and of the following papers: - 'Distribution of Molecular Energy' (Phil Trans, A 1901); 'Stability of a Spherical Nebula' (ibid, 1902); 'Vibrations and Stability of a Gravitating Planet' (ibid, 1903); 'Equilibrium of Rotating Liquid Cylinders' (ibid, 1903); 'On Striated Electrical Discharges' (Phil Mag, 1899 and 1901); 'On the Mechanism of Radiation' (ibid, 1901); 'On the Conditions necessary for Equipartition of Energy' (ibid, 1902); 'On the Vibrations set up in a Molecule by Collision' (ibid, 1903); 'On the Persistence of Molecular Vibrations in the Kinetic Theory of Gases' (ibid, 1904); 'On the Determination of the size of Molecules from the Kinetic Theory of Gaes' (ibid, 1904); 'On the Theory of the Algol Variables.'
ProposersGeorge H Darwin; Robert S Ball; A R Forsyth; R T Glazebrook; E W Hobson; A N Whitehead; J J Thomson; J H Poynting
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Jeans, Sir James Hopwood: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA1226Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician1877 - 1946
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