FRANKLIN MEDAL
FOR BRITISH SCIENTIST
(Britisli Official Wireless.) RUGBY, 17th April. Sir James Jeans, the distinguished British astronomer, left England, on Saturday for the United States, where next month he will bo presented with tho Franklin' Medal for research into physical science—ono of the highest honours open to scientists of the world.
Sir James Hopwood Jeans is 53 years of age, and was knighted in 1928. He is a Cambridge man, and has hold university positions as a lecturer in mathematics on both sides of tho Atlantic. Since 1923 .he has been research associate of the Mount Wilson Observatory. He has written extensively on astronomical and mathematical , questions. Franklin Medals, the highest awards of the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania, have been awarded to 32 scientists, among the list being the names of Lord Butherford (1924), Thomas Edison (1915), Sir Charles Parsons (1920), and Sir William Bragg-(1930).
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1931, Page 7
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