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    Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS (11 September 1877 – 16 September 1946) was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary...
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    In physics, the Rayleigh–Jeans law is an approximation to the spectral radiance of electromagnetic radiation as a function of wavelength from a black...
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    gravitational collapse of a region filled with matter. It is named after James Jeans. For stability, the cloud must be in hydrostatic equilibrium, which in...
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    Jeans are a type of trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Often the term "jeans" refers to a particular style of trousers, called "blue jeans",...
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    The ultraviolet catastrophe, also called the Rayleigh–Jeans catastrophe, was the prediction of late 19th century and early 20th century classical physics...
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    Mom Jeans (stylized Mom Jeans.) is an American alternative rock/indie rock band formed in Berkeley, California, in 2014. Mom Jeans found their start in...
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    who took the stage name Bob B. Soxx. The Blue Jeans were backing vocalists Darlene Love and Fanita James, both of whom were also members of the girl group...
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  • Universe is a popular science book by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1930 by the Cambridge University Press. In the United...
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    Desmond Lee) The Republic, Harmondsworth Penguin 1974, page 340, note. Sir James Jeans, Science and Music, Dover 1968, p. 154. Alain Danielou, Introduction...
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    Rutherford had been expected to preside over before his death, astrophysicist James Jeans spoke in his place and deemed him "one of the greatest scientists of...
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  • idealism "the thesis that reality is basically mental." The physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: "The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality;...
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  • Audrey Jeans (born Audrey Stella Jennings; 27 July 1929 – 9 August 1980) was an English singer and comedienne. She was born in Landport, Portsmouth. She...
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    Isabel Jeans (16 September 1891 – 4 September 1985) was an English stage and film actress known for her roles in several Alfred Hitchcock films and her...
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  • The black-body problem was revisited in 1905, when Lord Rayleigh and James Jeans (together) and Albert Einstein independently proved that classical electromagnetism...
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  • William Tulloch Jeans (1848–1907) was a British parliamentary journalist and author. Jeans was parliamentary correspondent for The Globe, and was widely...
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    competition, R. W. H. T. Hudson was 1st, J. F. Cameron was 2nd, and James Jeans was 3rd. "What became of the Senior Wranglers?" by D. O. Forfar Grattan-Guinness...
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  • escape mechanism is Jeans escape, named after British astronomer Sir James Jeans, who first described this process of atmospheric loss. In a quantity...
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    During her 1934-35 tour she met the astronomer and mathematician Sir James Jeans just over 32 years her senior, whom she married, in Vienna, in September...
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    company known worldwide for its Levi's (/ˈliːvaɪz/ LEE-vyze) brand of denim jeans. It was founded in May 1853 when German-Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss moved...
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    Jeans is a lunar impact crater, on the southeastern limb of the Moon, with its majority lying on the far side. A favorable libration can bring the entire...
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    resembles a tuning fork. It was invented by John Henry Reynolds and Sir James Jeans. The tuning fork scheme divided regular galaxies into three broad classes...
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    objects. The Jeans equations were originally derived by James Clerk Maxwell. However, they were first applied to astronomy by James Jeans in 1915 while...
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    College, Cambridge. He attended lectures on electromagnetism given by James Jeans and Joseph Larmor, and did some research on cathode rays, but failed...
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    ever lived. On the bicentennial of Newton's death in 1927, astronomer James Jeans stated that he "was certainly the greatest man of science, and perhaps...
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    The Swinging Blue Jeans are a four-piece 1960s British Merseybeat band, best known for their hit singles with the His Master's Voice label: "Hippy Hippy...
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  • Universe Around Us is a science book written by English astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1929 by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press...
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    there." In his 1931 book The Mysterious Universe, Eddington's rival James Jeans attributed the monkey parable to a "Huxley", presumably meaning Thomas...
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  • "The Running-Down of the Universe" from Nature and the Physical World James Jeans, "Beginnings and Endings" from The Universe Around Us Kees Boeke, "Cosmic...
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  • Ripped Jeans is the third extended play by Irish girl group B*Witched. It was released on 15 August, 2024, through Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited...
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  • example of a mnemonic for pi, originally devised by English scientist James Jeans, is "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures...
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