Harold Jeffreys
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 35 years ago |
| Date of birth | April 22,1891 |
| Zodiac sign | Taurus |
| Born | Fatfield |
| Washington | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | March 18,1989 |
| Died | Cambridge |
| United Kingdom | |
| Spouse | Bertha Swirles |
| Job | Astronomer |
| Statistician | |
| Geophysicist | |
| Education | Durham University |
| University of London International Programmes | |
| University of London Worldwide | |
| Books | The earth |
| Collected Papers of Sir Harold Jeffreys on Geophysics and Other Sciences | |
| Seismological tables | |
| Theory of probability | |
| Scientific inference | |
| Cartesian tensors | |
| Operational methods in mathematical physics | |
| Awards | Royal Medal |
| Copley Medal | |
| Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society | |
| Wollaston Medal | |
| William Bowie Medal | |
| Vetlesen Prize | |
| Royal Society Bakerian Medal | |
| Murchison Medal | |
| Victoria Medal | |
| Current partner | Bertha Swirles |
| Notable student | Hermann Bondi |
| V. S. Huzurbazar | |
| Sydney Goldstein | |
| Michael S. Longuet-Higgins | |
| Academic advisor | H. F. Baker |
| Nationality | British |
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| ID | 453741 |
Harold Jeffreys Life story
Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics. His book, Theory of Probability, which was first published in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the objective Bayesian view of probability.
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