Word: hopwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contest (first prize: a whole chest of silver); 3) winning $14 for a contest article entitled How I Met the Problems of Adolescence in my Daughter, which she wrote shortly before her first child was born. Her first published novel, Fireweed, won the University of Michigan's Avery Hopwood Prize...
Born. To Astronomer Sir James Hopwood Jeans (The Mysterious Universe), 59; and Mrs. Susi Hock Jeans, 25; a son; in London...
...years off is freezing due to solar exhaustion. One which might happen any day is incineration of Earth by the sun's blowing up as a nova or "new star." Last week in London a less familiar world-finish was suggested before the Royal Institution by Sir James Hopwood Jeans, whose popular appeal derives in large part from his ability to be imaginative and scientifically sound at the same time...
Married. Sir James Hopwood Jeans, 58, famed British astrophysicist, cosmologist, popularizer (The Mysterious Universe, Through Space and Time); and Susi Hock, 24, comely Viennese organist. Sir James's U. S.-born first wife, who died in 1934, left him a fortune...
...heard of its author until Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac won a Nobel Prize last year. Only a few of the ablest scholar-scientists can follow the chain of symbolic reasoning in Principles of Quantum Mechanics, and among them none is more articulate, more authoritative, more sensible than Sir James Hopwood Jeans, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Like a modern St. Paul, Sir James has taken it upon himself to preach the Gospel abroad, to explain the groundwork of theory which makes the work of Dirac and his peers possible. Last week appeared the newest Jeans...