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 160,673 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). James Jeans is the 323rd most popular physicist (down from 315th in 2019), the 1,190th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,169th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Physicist.
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Among physicists, James Jeans ranks 323 out of 717. Before him are Otto Schmidt, Daniel C. Tsui, Qian Xuesen, Christoph Scheiner, John Mauchly, and Yakov Zeldovich. After him are Frank Wilczek, Bruno Pontecorvo, Gaston Planté, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Pascual Jordan, and August Kundt.
1891 - 1956
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 317
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 318
1911 - 2009
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 319
1575 - 1650
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 320
1907 - 1980
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 321
1914 - 1987
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 322
1877 - 1946
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 323
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 324
1913 - 1993
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 325
1834 - 1889
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 326
1785 - 1845
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 327
1902 - 1980
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 328
1839 - 1894
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 329
Among people born in 1877, James Jeans ranks 43. Before him are Otto Gross, Henry Norris Russell, Isabelle Eberhardt, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Alben W. Barkley, and Endre Ady. After him are Raymond Roussel, Sadao Araki, Vasil Kolarov, Jesse Livermore, Chaim Rumkowski, and Herbert Pitman. Among people deceased in 1946, James Jeans ranks 60. Before him are Clemens August Graf von Galen, Anton Mussert, Hisaichi Terauchi, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, Henry Bergman, and Carl Schuhmann. After him are Miroslav Filipović, Max Koegel, Arthur Greiser, Jeanne Lanvin, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, and Infanta María de la Paz of Spain.
1877 - 1920
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 37
1877 - 1957
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 38
1877 - 1904
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 39
1877 - 1947
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 40
1877 - 1956
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 41
1877 - 1919
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 42
1877 - 1946
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 43
1877 - 1933
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 44
1877 - 1966
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 45
1877 - 1950
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 46
1877 - 1940
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 47
1877 - 1944
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 48
1877 - 1961
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 49
1878 - 1946
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 54
1894 - 1946
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 55
1879 - 1946
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 56
1890 - 1946
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 57
1868 - 1946
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 58
1869 - 1946
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 59
1877 - 1946
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 60
1915 - 1946
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 61
1895 - 1946
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 62
1897 - 1946
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 63
1867 - 1946
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 64
1922 - 1946
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 65
1862 - 1946
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 66
Among people born in United Kingdom, James Jeans ranks 1,190 out of 7,765. Before him are Joan of Kent (1328), Greer Garson (1904), Thomas Hodgkin (1798), Nicko McBrain (1952), William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), and Dave Murray (1956). After him are Hudson Taylor (1832), Fraser Stoddart (1942), Don Airey (1948), Michael Moorcock (1939), Henry Walter Bates (1825), and Marc Bolan (1947).
1328 - 1385
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 1,184
1904 - 1996
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 1,185
1798 - 1866
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 1,186
1952 - Present
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 1,187
1800 - 1867
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 1,188
1956 - Present
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 1,189
1877 - 1946
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 1,190
1832 - 1905
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 1,191
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 1,192
1948 - Present
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 1,193
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 1,194
1825 - 1892
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 1,195
1947 - 1977
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 1,196
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, James Jeans ranks 43. Before him are Brian Josephson (1940), Freeman Dyson (1923), Peter Mansfield (1933), William Whewell (1794), Stephen Hales (1677), and John Stewart Bell (1928). After him are William Sturgeon (1783), John Henry Poynting (1852), Duncan Haldane (1951), William Watson (1715), John Kerr (1824), and Louis Harold Gray (1905).
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 37
1923 - 2020
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 38
1933 - 2017
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 39
1794 - 1866
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 40
1677 - 1761
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 41
1928 - 1990
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 42
1877 - 1946
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 43
1783 - 1850
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 44
1852 - 1914
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 45
1951 - Present
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 46
1715 - 1787
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 47
1824 - 1907
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 48
1905 - 1965
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 49