Table of Contents

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.

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