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Harold JeffreysSir Harold Jeffreys (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. He was born in Fatfield, County Durham, England. He studied at Armstrong College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, then part of the University of Durham but later to become the University of Newcastle. He then went to St John's College, Cambridge and became a fellow in 1914. At Cambridge University he taught mathematics, then geophysics and finally became the Plumian Professor of Astronomy. He married another mathematician and physicist, Bertha Swirles (1903-1999), in 1940 and together they wrote Methods of Mathematical Physics. Among his other contributions was a Bayesian approach to probability, and the idea that the Earth's planetary core was liquid. He was knighted in 1953. References External links Jeffreys, Harold Jeffreys, Harold Jeffreys, Harold Jeffreys, Harold
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