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284:, County Durham, England, the son of Robert Hal Jeffreys, headmaster of Fatfield Church School, and his wife, Elizabeth Mary Sharpe, a school teacher. He was educated at his father's school and at Rutherford Technical College, then studied at
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From 1939 to 1952 he was established as
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Photographs of Harold
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1159:"Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Biography of Vetlesen Prize Winner - Sir Harold Jeffreys"
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Roxburgh, I. W. (2007). "Hermann Bondi 1 November 1919–10 September 2005: Elected FRS 1959".
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Swirles, Bertha (1992). "Reminiscences and
Discoveries: Harold Jeffreys from 1891 to 1940".
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872:"Errata: Sir Harold Jeffreys. 2 April 1891–18 March 1989".
798:(1990). "Sir Harold Jeffreys. 2 April 1891–18 March 1989".
1190:. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 159.
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The dating game: one man's search for the age of the Earth
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Biography of Vetlesen Prize Winner – Sir Harold Jeffreys
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The Earth, Its Origin, History and Physical Constitution
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in Part Two, and in 1915 he was awarded the prestigious
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Jeffreys subsequently won a scholarship to study the
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
956:"Harold Jeffreys's Theory of Probability Revisited"
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Opposition to continental drift and plate tectonics
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Plaque to Sir Harold Jeffreys, Newcastle University
1042:"Papers and Correspondence of Sir Harold Jeffreys"
539:written by the physicist and probability theorist
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616:Victoria Medal, Royal Geographical Society, 1941
607:Buchan Prize, Royal Meteorological Society, 1929
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954:Robert, C.P.; Chopin, N.; Rousseau, J. (2009).
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709:Ocean Waves and Kindred Geophysical Phenomena
601:Adams Prize, 1927 (Constitution of the Earth)
3392:Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society
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604:Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society, 1937
495:Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
145:Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
1215:Operational methods in mathematical physics
704:. Cambridge University Press; 2nd edn. 1961
666:Operational Methods in Mathematical Physics
361:. Unsourced material may be challenged and
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937:MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
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3297:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
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3307:Alumni of the University of London
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1071:"Jeffreys, Sir Harold (1891–1989)"
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631:, American Geophysical Union, 1952
556:method of proving that the number
530:International Seismological Centre
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1557:Harold Jeffreys as a Statistician
1537:Works by or about Harold Jeffreys
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637:Copley Medal, Royal Society, 1961
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1416:10.1090/s0002-9904-1948-08974-1
1397:Methods of mathematical physics
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458:Methods of Mathematical Physics
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697:; 2nd edn. 1937; 3rd edn. 1973
661:; 5th edn. 1970; 6th edn. 1976
447:Plumian Professor of Astronomy
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441:he taught mathematics, then
309:St John's College, Cambridge
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598:Fellow, Royal Society, 1925
152:Fellow of the Royal Society
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3387:Analysands of Ernest Jones
2076:Jervoise Athelstane Baines
1870:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
670:Cambridge University Press
659:Cambridge University Press
292:(at that time part of the
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1495:Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond.
1353:Dodd, Edward L. (1940).
942:University of St Andrews
622:, Brussels Academy, 1948
3382:Wollaston Medal winners
3195:Omiros Papaspiliopoulos
2920:William Gemmell Cochran
1950:Frederick Charles Frank
1662:John Edensor Littlewood
1079:(subscription required)
681:The Future of the Earth
445:and finally became the
439:University of Cambridge
3312:Bayesian statisticians
2711:Robert Nicholas Curnow
1507:10.1098/rsnr.1992.0028
1435:Galavotti, Maria Carla
1369:(9, Part 1): 739–741.
1184:Lewis, Cherry (2002).
1112:10.1098/rsta.1982.0062
901:Jaynes, E. T. (2003).
888:10.1098/rsbm.1991.0025
851:10.1098/rsbm.2007.0008
814:10.1098/rsbm.1990.0034
620:Charles Lagrange Prize
515:Charles Lagrange Prize
493:Jeffreys received the
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3327:English statisticians
1822:Robert Burns Woodward
1473:Howie, David (2002).
1403:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
1363:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
1357:Theory of probability
1326:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
1261:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
1221:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
731:Theory of Probability
280:Jeffreys was born in
266:Theory of Probability
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3357:People from Fatfield
2795:Michael Titterington
1862:Rodney Robert Porter
1453:10.1093/bjps/54.1.43
1290:Scientific Inference
1255:Scientific inference
928:Robertson, Edmund F.
695:Macmillan Publishers
691:Scientific Inference
685:Norton & Company
548:Scientific Inference
484:Schrödinger equation
355:improve this section
294:University of Durham
3372:Royal Medal winners
3201:Nicolai Meinshausen
3040:David Spiegelhalter
2723:David Spiegelhalter
2477:Ernest Charles Snow
2292:David Spiegelhalter
1774:Nevill Francis Mott
1165:on 28 November 2009
1104:1982RSPTA.306...11B
960:Statistical Science
926:O'Connor, John J.;
629:William Bowie Medal
550:that we know about
305:Mathematical Tripos
290:Newcastle upon Tyne
254:Sir Harold Jeffreys
173:William Bowie Medal
25:Sir Harold Jeffreys
2333:Augustus Sauerbeck
2100:T. H. C. Stevenson
2088:Patrick G. Craigie
1990:John Maynard Smith
1742:Tadeusz Reichstein
1022:on 24 January 2013
724:Methuen Publishing
593:Honours and awards
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3106:J. N. S. Matthews
3100:Iain M. Johnstone
3094:R. F. A. Poultney
3034:Bernard Silverman
2974:D. J. Bartholomew
2910:Bronze medallists
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2819:Iain M. Johnstone
2813:Sylvia Richardson
2735:Steffen Lauritzen
2317:Silver medallists
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1846:Peter D. Mitchell
1758:Alexander R. Todd
1670:Macfarlane Burnet
1593:Copley Medallists
1359:, by H. Jeffreys"
1322:, by H. Jeffreys"
1320:Cartesian tensors
1217:, by H. Jeffreys"
983:10.1214/09-STS284
932:"Harold Jeffreys"
771:Gordon and Breach
702:Cartesian Tensors
625:Royal Medal, 1948
575:continental drift
505:in 1960, and the
488:WKB approximation
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222:Doctoral students
204:Scientific career
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3207:Richard Samworth
3171:Matthew Stephens
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2579:George E. P. Box
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2435:J. S. Nicholson
2405:Edward Brabrook
2399:N. A. Humphreys
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