Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS (11 September 1877 – 16 September 1946) was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician. Born in Ormskirk, Lancashire...

In physics, the Rayleigh–Jeans law is an approximation to the spectral radiance of electromagnetic radiation as a function of wavelength from a black...

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...

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",...

The ultraviolet catastrophe, also called the Rayleigh–Jeans catastrophe, was the prediction of late 19th century to early 20th century classical physics...

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...

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;...

escape mechanism is Jeans escape, named after British astronomer Sir James Jeans, who first described this process of atmospheric loss. In a quantity...

The black-body problem was revisited in 1905, when Lord Rayleigh and James Jeans (together) and Albert Einstein independently proved that classical electromagnetism...

William Tulloch Jeans (1848–1907) was a British parliamentary journalist and author. Jeans was parliamentary correspondent for The Globe, and was widely...