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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Royal Medal winners, British seismologists, Mathematical statisticians, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, 1891 births
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Harold Jeffreys  Sir Harold Jeffreys
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Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics. Wikipedia
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Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics. Wikipedia
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IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
knight bachelor
Adams Prize
Royal Medal
Vetlesen Prize
Bakerian Lecture
+7 relations
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
H. F. Baker
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Michael S. Longuet-Higgins
V. S. Huzurbazar
Sydney Goldstein
Hermann Bondi
EDUCATED AT
Newcastle University
Durham University
St John's College, Cambridge
EMPLOYER
Cambridge University
Cavendish Laboratory
Met Office
FAMILY NAME
Jeffreys
FIELD OF WORK
astronomy
geophysics
statistics
GIVEN NAME
Harold
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
NOMINATED FOR
Nobel Prize in Physics
NOTABLE WORK
Jeffreys prior
Jeffreys number
OCCUPATION
statistician
astronomer
mathematician
seismologist
PLACE OF BIRTH
Fatfield
PLACE OF DEATH
Cambridge
POSITION HELD
Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
SEX OR GENDER
male
SPOUSE
Bertha Swirles
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
Wikipedia
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Harold Jeffreys
Wikidata
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Harold Jeffreys
Wikipedia Redirections
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Harold jeffreys, Sir Harold Jeffreys
Wikidata Alias
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Sir Harold Jeffreys

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