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596:. This opposition persisted even into the 1960s among his colleagues at Cambridge. For him, continental drift was "out of the question" because no force even remotely strong enough to move the continents across the Earth's surface was evident. As geological and geophysical evidence for continental drift and
295:, 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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554:, is dedicated to Jeffreys. The dedication reads, "Dedicated to the memory of Sir Harold Jeffreys, who saw the truth and preserved it."
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Jeffreys became a fellow of St John's
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From 1939 to 1952 he was established as
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Jeffreys at Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, American Institute of Physics
1170:"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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883:"Errata: Sir Harold Jeffreys. 2 April 1891–18 March 1989".
809:(1990). "Sir Harold Jeffreys. 2 April 1891–18 March 1989".
1201:. 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 1940, he married fellow mathematician and physicist,
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in Part Two, and in 1915 he was awarded the prestigious
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Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
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Jeffreys subsequently won a scholarship to study the
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
967:"Harold Jeffreys's Theory of Probability Revisited"
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1053:"Papers and Correspondence of Sir Harold Jeffreys"
550:written by the physicist and probability theorist
1146:Asymptotical mechanics of thin-walled structures
627:Victoria Medal, Royal Geographical Society, 1941
618:Buchan Prize, Royal Meteorological Society, 1929
965:Robert, C.P.; Chopin, N.; Rousseau, J. (2009).
271:(22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British
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1451:British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
1016:. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006.
720:Ocean Waves and Kindred Geophysical Phenomena
612:Adams Prize, 1927 (Constitution of the Earth)
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3403:Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society
615:Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society, 1937
506:Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
156:Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
1226:Operational methods in mathematical physics
715:. Cambridge University Press; 2nd edn. 1961
677:Operational Methods in Mathematical Physics
372:. Unsourced material may be challenged and
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3313:Alumni of University of London Worldwide
1488:. New York: Cambridge University Press.
1148:. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. p. 471.
914:Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
486:), as well as the idea that the Earth's
3348:Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge
1086:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
948:MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
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309:University of London External Programme
3308:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
1059:from the original on 18 September 2018
748:, Oxford; 2nd edn. 1948; 3rd edn. 1961
281:objective Bayesian view of probability
1299:Jeffreys, Harold (13 December 1973).
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467:(1903–1999), and together they wrote
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370:adding citations to reliable sources
3413:Alumni of Armstrong College, Durham
3333:20th-century English mathematicians
27:British physicist and mathematician
3423:British mathematical statisticians
3318:Alumni of the University of London
1082:"Jeffreys, Sir Harold (1891–1989)"
642:, American Geophysical Union, 1952
567:method of proving that the number
541:International Seismological Centre
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1568:Harold Jeffreys as a Statistician
1548:Works by or about Harold Jeffreys
648:Copley Medal, Royal Society, 1961
3328:20th-century British astronomers
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1427:10.1090/s0002-9904-1948-08974-1
1408:Methods of mathematical physics
1387:10.1090/s0002-9904-1940-07280-5
1350:10.1090/s0002-9904-1933-05715-4
1285:10.1090/s0002-9904-1939-06947-4
1245:10.1090/s0002-9904-1929-04822-5
753:Methods of Mathematical Physics
469:Methods of Mathematical Physics
3373:Recipients of the Copley Medal
1222:Uhler, Horace Scudder (1929).
916:. Cambridge University Press.
708:; 2nd edn. 1937; 3rd edn. 1973
672:; 5th edn. 1970; 6th edn. 1976
458:Plumian Professor of Astronomy
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3353:Fellows of the Royal Society
726:, Cambridge University Press
452:he taught mathematics, then
320:St John's College, Cambridge
104:St John's College, Cambridge
3343:Philosophers of probability
609:Fellow, Royal Society, 1925
163:Fellow of the Royal Society
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3398:Analysands of Ernest Jones
2087:Jervoise Athelstane Baines
1881:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
681:Cambridge University Press
670:Cambridge University Press
303:(at that time part of the
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1705:Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
1506:Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond.
1364:Dodd, Edward L. (1940).
953:University of St Andrews
633:, Brussels Academy, 1948
3393:Wollaston Medal winners
3206:Omiros Papaspiliopoulos
2931:William Gemmell Cochran
1961:Frederick Charles Frank
1673:John Edensor Littlewood
1090:(subscription required)
692:The Future of the Earth
456:and finally became the
450:University of Cambridge
3323:Bayesian statisticians
2722:Robert Nicholas Curnow
1518:10.1098/rsnr.1992.0028
1446:Galavotti, Maria Carla
1380:(9, Part 1): 739–741.
1195:Lewis, Cherry (2002).
1123:10.1098/rsta.1982.0062
912:Jaynes, E. T. (2003).
899:10.1098/rsbm.1991.0025
862:10.1098/rsbm.2007.0008
825:10.1098/rsbm.1990.0034
631:Charles Lagrange Prize
526:Charles Lagrange Prize
504:Jeffreys received the
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3388:British seismologists
3338:English statisticians
1833:Robert Burns Woodward
1484:Howie, David (2002).
1414:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
1374:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
1368:Theory of probability
1337:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
1272:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
1232:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
742:Theory of Probability
291:Jeffreys was born in
277:Theory of Probability
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3368:People from Fatfield
2806:Michael Titterington
1873:Rodney Robert Porter
1464:10.1093/bjps/54.1.43
1301:Scientific Inference
1266:Scientific inference
939:Robertson, Edmund F.
706:Macmillan Publishers
702:Scientific Inference
696:Norton & Company
559:Scientific Inference
495:Schrödinger equation
366:improve this section
305:University of Durham
3383:Royal Medal winners
3212:Nicolai Meinshausen
3051:David Spiegelhalter
2734:David Spiegelhalter
2488:Ernest Charles Snow
2303:David Spiegelhalter
1785:Nevill Francis Mott
1176:on 28 November 2009
1115:1982RSPTA.306...11B
971:Statistical Science
937:O'Connor, John J.;
640:William Bowie Medal
561:that we know about
316:Mathematical Tripos
301:Newcastle upon Tyne
265:Sir Harold Jeffreys
184:William Bowie Medal
36:Sir Harold Jeffreys
18:Sir Harold Jeffreys
2344:Augustus Sauerbeck
2111:T. H. C. Stevenson
2099:Patrick G. Craigie
2001:John Maynard Smith
1753:Tadeusz Reichstein
1033:on 24 January 2013
735:Methuen Publishing
604:Honours and awards
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3105:R. F. A. Poultney
3045:Bernard Silverman
2985:D. J. Bartholomew
2921:Bronze medallists
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2824:Sylvia Richardson
2746:Steffen Lauritzen
2328:Silver medallists
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1857:Peter D. Mitchell
1769:Alexander R. Todd
1681:Macfarlane Burnet
1604:Copley Medallists
1370:, by H. Jeffreys"
1333:, by H. Jeffreys"
1331:Cartesian tensors
1228:, by H. Jeffreys"
994:10.1214/09-STS284
943:"Harold Jeffreys"
782:Gordon and Breach
713:Cartesian Tensors
636:Royal Medal, 1948
586:continental drift
516:in 1960, and the
499:WKB approximation
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215:Scientific career
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2416:Edward Brabrook
2410:N. A. Humphreys
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