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Jeans, Sir James (Hopwood) (sh)




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.