(September 11, 1877–September 16, 1946), was an English physicist and astronomer. He studied the nature of gases and sun radiations. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University, he became a professor at Princeton University in the area of applied mathematics, and later a professor at Cambridge. He was a research associate at the Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California, 1923–44; Secretary of the Royal Society; president of the Royal Astronomical Society of England; and was knighted in 1928. His works include: The Universe Around Us, 1929; The Mysterious Universe, 1930; and Physics and Philosophy, 1942.
In his work, The Mysterious Universe, 1930, Sir James Hopwood Jeans stated:
All the pictures which science now draws of nature and which alone seem capable of according with observational fact are mathematical pictures. … From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.3276