18 Aug 2023                   
                Wife: Charlotte Tiffany Mitchell    
                Born: ABT 1876             in USA  1
           Education:                      Trinity College, Cambridge  2 (see note 1)
                Died: 1934                 in London  3 (see note 2)
              Father:
              Mother:
             Husband: James Hopwood Jeans     
       Also known as: Sir James Hopwood Jeans 
             Married: 1907                   1
                Born: 1877                 in Lancashire  3 (see note 3)
             Resided: 1910 - 1911          at Woodlands, 2 Chaucer Road, Trumpington  4,5 (see note 4)
          Occupation:                      Physicist, Astronomer, Mathematician  1
                Died: 1946                 in Surrey  3 (see note 5)
              Father:
              Mother:
          Media link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jeans
          Media desc: Wikipedia

Sources:
(1) Wikipedia. 
(2) Alumni Cantabrigienses. 
(3) FreeBMD website. 
(4) Rus in Urbe. 
(5) 1911 census. 


Event Notes
Note (1) Name: 	James Hopwood. Jeans
College: 	TRINITY
Entered: 	Michs. 1896
BORN: 	11 Sep 1877
Died: 	16 Sep 1946
More Information: 	Adm. pens. at TRINITY, June 30, 1896. S. of William
Tullock [journalist], of 77, Brailsford Road, Tulse Hill, London. B. [Sept. 11,
1877], at Southport, Lancs. School, Merchant Taylors', London. Matric. Michs.
1896; (2nd Wrangler, 1898; Math. Trip., Pt II, 1st Class, 1900); B.A. 1899;
Isaac Newton student, 1900; Smith's prize, 1901; M.A. 1903. Fellow, 1901; Hon.
Fellow, 1941. University Lecturer in Mathematics, 1904-5. Stokes Lecturer in
Applied Mathematics, 1910-12. Hon. D.Sc., Oxford, Manchester, Benares; Hon.
LL.D., Aberdeen, Johns Hopkins, St Andrews; Hon. Sc.D., Dublin. Professor of
Astronomy at the Royal Institution. Professor of Applied Mathematics, Princeton
University, 1905-9. F.R.S.; gold medal, 1919; Secretary, 1919-29. President of
R.A.S., 1925-7; gold medal, 1922. President of British Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1934; of India Science Congress Association, 1938.
Franklin medal of the Franklin Institute, 1931. Mukerjee medal of the Indian
Association for Advancement of Science, 1937. Calcutta medal of the R. Asiatic
Society of Bengal, 1938. Knighted, 1928. O.M., 1939. Author, The Dynamical
Theory of Gases; The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism; Radiation
and the Quantum Theory; Atomicity and Quanta; and of such very popular works as
The Universe around us; The Mysterious Universe; Stars in their Courses, etc. Of
Cleveland Lodge, Dorking, in 1945. Died there Sept. 16, 1946. (Who's Who; The
Times, Sept. 17, 1946.)
Note (2) Jun 1934 Marylebone 1a 577   age 57
Note (3) Dec 1877 Ormskirk 8b 753
Note (4) Recorded as householder in 1911 census, but not present
Note (5) Dep 1946 Surrey SE 5g 607   age 69

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