James Jeans vs. Arthur Balfour
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
James Jeans
1877 – 1946
Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1925 to 1927, and won its Gold Medal.
"We saw that radiation cannot suitably be pictured as particles when it is traveling through space. There is a corresponding property for electrons; these should…"
Arthur Balfour
1687 – 1746
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, he issued the Balfour Declaration of 1917 on behalf of the cabinet, which supported a "home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, and later issued the Balfour Declaration of 1926 as Lord of the Privy Council, which announced a co-equal relationship between the United Kingdom and its Dominions, laying the groundwork for the Statute of Westminster 1931 which granted full independence to the former colonies.
"Suppose that it was a familiar thought in your minds that there never was at any moment of the year within the limits of your State more than seven weeks food f…"
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