James Hopwood Jeans - Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

  • Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 1906
  • Bakerian Lecture to Royal Society in 1917.
  • Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1919.
  • Hopkins Prize of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1921–1924.
  • Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1922.
  • He was knighted in 1928.
  • Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1931.
  • Mukerjee Medal of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1937.
  • President of the 25th session of the Indian Science Congress in 1938.
  • Calcutta Medal of the Indian Science Congress Association in 1938.
  • Member of the Order of Merit in 1939.


  • The crater Jeans on the Moon is named after him, as is the crater Jeans on Mars.
  • The String Quartet No.7 by Robert Simpson was written in tribute to him on the centenary of his birth, 1977.

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