| RefNo | EC/1906/07 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XII, 224 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Jeans, Sir James Hopwood: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Professor 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.' |
| Proposers | George H Darwin; Robert S Ball; A R Forsyth; R T Glazebrook; E W Hobson; A N Whitehead; J J Thomson; J H Poynting |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1226 | Jeans; Sir; James Hopwood (1877 - 1946); physicist and mathematician | 1877 - 1946 |