An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1877-1946), English mathematical physicist, astrophysicist, and popularizer of science. He made important contributions to theoretical astrophysics, especially to the theory of stellar formation. → Jeans escape, → Jeans instability, → Jeans length, → Jeans mass, → Jeans scale, → Rayleigh-Jeans law, → Rayleigh-Jeans spectrum, → thermal Jeans mass, → turbulent Jeans mass, → Jeans escape.