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Harold Jeffreys

1891 - 1989

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Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harold Jeffreys is the 532nd most popular mathematician (up from 589th in 2019), the 2,542nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,740th in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Harold Jeffreys ranks 532 out of 1,004. Before him are Nicolaus I Bernoulli, David Mumford, Luis Caffarelli, George David Birkhoff, Julia Robinson, and Arnaud Denjoy. After him are Richard E. Bellman, Rózsa Péter, Pietro Mengoli, Hans Freudenthal, Erik Ivar Fredholm, and Max Dehn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Harold Jeffreys ranks 135. Before him are John W. McCormack, Wilder Penfield, Boris Iofan, Maksim Bahdanovič, Joe E. Brown, and Earl Warren. After him are Francisco Lázaro, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, Milton L. Humason, Otto Ciliax, Wan Waithayakon, and Galaktion Tabidze. Among people deceased in 1989, Harold Jeffreys ranks 128. Before him are Wally Ris, Wilfrid Sellars, Yuliya Solntseva, Robert Webber, Guy Laroche, and Brian Naylor. After him are Nilufer Hanımsultan, Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, Robert Penn Warren, Pavel Kurochkin, Martti Talvela, and Prince Wolfgang of Hesse.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harold Jeffreys ranks 2,543 out of 8,785. Before him are Jimmy Mullen (1923), David Richards (1952), Jack Higgins (1929), Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888), William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (1748), and Robert Peake the Elder (1551). After him are Bernie Taupin (1950), Herbert Read (1893), Susannah York (1939), Rufus Sewell (1967), Frederick Denison Maurice (1805), and Jenson Button (1980).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Harold Jeffreys ranks 58. Before him are James Stirling (1692), Ian Stewart (1945), William Kingdon Clifford (1845), Thomas Bradwardine (1300), Ernest William Brown (1866), and David Mumford (1937). After him are Edward Arthur Milne (1896), William Whiston (1667), Joseph Raphson (1648), Thomas Wright (1711), Henry Dudeney (1857), and Sydney Chapman (1888).

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