E. A. Milne

Sir James Jeans

A Biography

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1952, this book by E. A. Milne examines the life and work of influential astrophysicist Sir James Jeans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781107623330
• ISBN-10: 1107623332
• Artikelnr.: 39537717

Inhaltsangabe

Memoir by S. C. Roberts
1. Merchant Taylor's and Cambridge
2. Princeton, 1905-9
3. Return to England. The Adams Prize essay, 1909-19
4. Secretary of the Royal Society, 1919-29
5. Popular exposition, 1929-30
6. Later years, 1931-46
7. Science in Jeans's boyhood
8. The partition of energy
9. Rotating fluid masses
10. Star clusters
11. The equilibrium of the stars
12. Jeans and philosophy
Bibliography
Index.