Smith's Prize (1915) Adams Prize (1926) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1937) Fellow of the Royal Society (1925)[1] Murchison Medal (1939) Royal Medal (1948) William Bowie Medal (1952) Guy Medal (Gold, 1962) Vetlesen Prize (1962) Wollaston Medal (1964)
Scientific career
Fields
mathematics geophysics
Doctoral students
Hermann Bondi[2] Sydney Goldstein Vasant Huzurbazar
Plaque to Sir Harold Jeffreys, Newcastle University
Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS[1][3] (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) 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.[4][5][6]
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Sir HaroldJeffreys, FRS (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics....
In Bayesian probability, the Jeffreys prior, named after Sir HaroldJeffreys, is a non-informative prior distribution for a parameter space; its density...
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history of science (Agnes Mary Clerke Medal). Lectureships include the HaroldJeffreys Lectureship in geophysics, the George Darwin Lectureship in astronomy...
to 1969. In 1940, Swirles married fellow mathematician HaroldJeffreys becoming Lady Jeffreys when he was knighted in 1953. She enjoyed music and was...
domain [0, 1] was pointed out by HaroldJeffreys in the first edition (1939) of his book Theory of Probability ( p. 123). Jeffreys writes "Certainly if we take...
giving rise to objective and subjective currents in Bayesian practice. HaroldJeffreys' Theory of Probability (first published in 1939) played an important...
(1836–1882) George Darwin (1883–1912) Arthur Eddington (1913–1944) HaroldJeffreys (1946–1958) Fred Hoyle (1958–1972) Martin Rees (1973–1991) Richard...
status (the 'null hypothesis'), and only considers evidence against it. HaroldJeffreys gave a scale for interpretation of K: The second column gives the corresponding...
many others. Ronald Fisher Harald Cramér Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao HaroldJeffreys Solomon Kullback Jean-Louis Koszul Richard Leibler Claude Shannon Imre...
Léon Brillouin, who all developed it in 1926. In 1923, mathematician HaroldJeffreys had developed a general method of approximating solutions to linear...
challenged by Ronald Fisher, who preferred randomized designs. The Bayesian HaroldJeffreys, and Gosset's close associates Jerzy Neyman and Egon S. Pearson sided...
the mainshock was produced along a shallow crustal fault. In 1926, HaroldJeffreys was the first to claim, based on his study of earthquake waves, that...
Friedrich Hopfner, 1881–1949 (Austria) Martin Hotine, 1898–1968 (England) HaroldJeffreys, 1891–1989 (England) William M. Kaula, 1926–2000 (United States) Karl-Rudolf...
[citation needed] Objective Bayesian inference was further developed by HaroldJeffreys at the University of Cambridge. His seminal book "Theory of probability"...
could move around. Many distinguished scientists of the time, such as HaroldJeffreys and Charles Schuchert, were outspoken critics of continental drift...
The Jeffreys model like the Zener model is a three element model. It consist of two dashpots and a spring. It was proposed in 1929 by HaroldJeffreys to...
George Rochester (1926), co-discoverer of the kaon sub-atomic particle, HaroldJeffreys (Mathematics, 1919), winner of the Royal Society's Copley Medal, and...
advanced degrees, rather than research-training degrees at the PhD level. HaroldJeffreys said that getting a Cambridge ScD was "more or less equivalent to being...
that it has an infinite mass). HaroldJeffreys devised a systematic way for designing uninformative priors as e.g., Jeffreys prior p−1/2(1 − p)−1/2 for the...
by many important contributors. Pierre-Simon Laplace, Thomas Bayes, HaroldJeffreys, Richard Cox and Edwin Jaynes developed mathematical techniques and...
twentieth-century philosophers (best known for confirmation probability) HaroldJeffreys (1891–1989) - one of the giants within Bayesian statistics school Richard...
she wrote with HaroldJeffreys on scientific method formed the basis of his 1931 book Scientific Inference. In the Nature obituary Jeffreys wrote, "I should...
proof as a Tripos question, later published in an appendix to Sir HaroldJeffreys' book Scientific Inference. In 1947, she was elected to be a Fellow...
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