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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