1877 - 1946
Sir James Hopwood Jeans (11 September 1877 – 16 September 1946) was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Jeans has received more than 102,055 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. James Jeans is the 315th most popular physicist (up from 317th in 2019), the 1,170th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,103rd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Physicist.
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Among physicists, James Jeans ranks 315 out of 721. Before him are John Mauchly, Bruno Pontecorvo, John Stewart Bell, Otto Schmidt, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Paul-Jacques Curie. After him are Luis Walter Alvarez, Charles Fabry, Moritz von Jacobi, Pascual Jordan, Gerard 't Hooft, and Christoph Scheiner.
1907 - 1980
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 309
1913 - 1993
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 310
1928 - 1990
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 311
1891 - 1956
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 312
1858 - 1937
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 313
1855 - 1941
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 314
1877 - 1946
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 315
1911 - 1988
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 316
1867 - 1945
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 317
1801 - 1874
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 318
1902 - 1980
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 319
1946 - Present
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 320
1575 - 1650
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 321
Among people born in 1877, James Jeans ranks 40. Before him are Ernst von Dohnányi, Rudolf Hilferding, Ulrich Salchow, Raymond Roussel, Emil Abderhalden, and Vasil Kolarov. After him are Sadao Araki, Frank Marshall, Endre Ady, Edmund Landau, Ivy Lee, and Isabelle Eberhardt. Among people deceased in 1946, James Jeans ranks 56. Before him are Per Albin Hansson, Gustav Noske, Alfred Stieglitz, Hisaichi Terauchi, Miroslav Filipović, and Marcel Petiot. After him are Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Rüdiger von der Goltz, Max Koegel, Arthur Greiser, and Mihai Antonescu.
1877 - 1960
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 34
1877 - 1941
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 35
1877 - 1949
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 36
1877 - 1933
HPI: 67.94
Rank: 37
1877 - 1950
HPI: 67.71
Rank: 38
1877 - 1950
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 39
1877 - 1946
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 40
1877 - 1966
HPI: 67.23
Rank: 41
1877 - 1944
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 42
1877 - 1919
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 43
1877 - 1938
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 44
1877 - 1934
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 45
1877 - 1904
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 46
1885 - 1946
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 50
1868 - 1946
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 51
1864 - 1946
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 52
1879 - 1946
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 53
1915 - 1946
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 54
1897 - 1946
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 55
1877 - 1946
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 56
1890 - 1946
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 57
1903 - 1946
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 58
1865 - 1946
HPI: 67.27
Rank: 59
1895 - 1946
HPI: 67.20
Rank: 60
1897 - 1946
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 61
1904 - 1946
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 62
Among people born in United Kingdom, James Jeans ranks 1,170 out of 6,924. Before him are Clive Granger (1934), John Hunter (1728), Robert Fludd (1574), John Lindley (1799), Patrick Macnee (1922), and John Entwistle (1944). After him are Mary Dyer (1611), John Webster (1578), Jethro Tull (1674), Jack Phillips (1887), William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520), and Frank Lampard (1978).
1934 - 2009
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 1,164
1728 - 1793
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 1,165
1574 - 1637
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 1,166
1799 - 1865
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 1,167
1922 - 2015
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 1,168
1944 - 2002
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 1,169
1877 - 1946
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 1,170
1611 - 1660
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 1,171
1578 - 1634
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 1,172
1674 - 1741
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 1,173
1887 - 1912
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 1,174
1520 - 1598
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 1,175
1978 - Present
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 1,176
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, James Jeans ranks 43. Before him are Andrew Huxley (1917), Brian Josephson (1940), Charles Wheatstone (1802), Stephen Hales (1677), William Whewell (1794), and John Stewart Bell (1928). After him are J. Michael Kosterlitz (1943), John Henry Poynting (1852), William Sturgeon (1783), William Watson (1715), Louis Harold Gray (1905), and G. M. B. Dobson (1889).
1917 - 2012
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 37
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 38
1802 - 1875
HPI: 69.19
Rank: 39
1677 - 1761
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 40
1794 - 1866
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 41
1928 - 1990
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 42
1877 - 1946
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 43
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 44
1852 - 1914
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 45
1783 - 1850
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 46
1715 - 1787
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 47
1905 - 1965
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 48
1889 - 1975
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 49