Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 1877 - 1946 (Knight, physicist and mathematician)
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
File
Correspondence concerning the 1926 eclipse expedition, 1924 - 1927
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 169/3/7
Scope and Contents
Correspondence file including letters re sending observers from Australia to join the British expedition party; letters re preparations (equipment and maps); letters written from Sumatra describing the observation by the eclipse party; and subsequent letters re the spectra of the eclipse, photographic plates and reports etc. Correspondents include A.C. Crommelin, Walter Geoffrey Duffield, Frederick Stratton, Charles R. Davidson, J.H. Jeans, Nicholas Bosanquet, A.L. Mathewson, Winthrop R....
Dates:
1924 - 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Sub-Series
Jeans, J.H. Sir: Correspondence with the Press, 1914 - 1947
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/PRESS 3/1/2/6375
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondence comprises incoming letters, including readers' reports.This series is known as ‘author files’ because the arrangement is focused upon the individual. Some contain correspondence only. The correspondence includes readers' reports from 1913 onwards.As the new Press Archive catalogue is not yet complete, please use the 'Former / Other Reference' to request these items.For the number of items (not the number of letters) see the number in brackets after the Former /...
Dates:
1914 - 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Scholarly access to this material may be restricted if it contains information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000. Please apply in advance to the Cambridge University Press Archivist.
File
University Publisher: Correspondence with Jeans, J.H., 1936 - 1947
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/PRESS 3/1/3/2488
Scope and Contents
This correspondence contains:
- 86 carbon typed letters to Jeans, J.H.
- 1 carbon typed letter to Ferguson, A.
- 1 carbon typed letter to Richardson, E.G.
- 1 carbon typed letter to Miller, D.C.
- 1 carbon typed letter to the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- 1 carbon typed letter to Hart, H.C.
- 1 carbon typed letter to Fowler, R.H.
- 1 carbon typed letter to Ratcliffe, J.A.
- 1 carbon typed letter to Messrs. Andrew Melrose...
Dates:
1936 - 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Scholarly access to this material may be restricted if it contains information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000. Please apply in advance to the Cambridge University Press Archivist.
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- ARCHON code (for CUL materials)
- University Archives (GBR/0265) 2
- Royal Greenwich Observatory (GBR/0180) 1