Harold Jeffreys

1891 - 1989

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Full MacTutor biography [Version for printing]
List of References (6 books/articles)

Some Quotations (3)

Mathematicians born in the same country

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Additional Material in MacTutor

  1. Harold Jeffreys: Scientific Inference Preface
  2. Harold Jeffreys on Logic and Scientific Inference
  3. Harold Jeffreys on Probability

Honours awarded to Harold Jeffreys
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Fellow of the Royal Society1925
Plumian chair1946 - 1958
Royal Society Royal Medal1948
Royal Society Bakerian lecturer1952
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh1953
Royal Society Copley Medal1960
RSS Guy Medal in Gold1962

Other Web sites
  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. J Aldrich
  1. UCLA (Lady Jeffreys)
  2. Mathematical Genealogy Project
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