Harold Jeffreys

Sir Harold Jeffreys (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer.

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22 April - 1891 - 18 March - 1989

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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.

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Fatfield - County Durham - England - Armstrong College - Newcastle-upon-Tyne - University of Durham - University of Newcastle - St John's College, Cambridge - 1914 - Cambridge University - Mathematics - Geophysics - Plumian Professor of Astronomy

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He married another mathematician and physicist, Bertha Swirles (1903-1999), in 1940 and together they wrote Methods of Mathematical Physics.

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Bertha Swirles - 1903 - 1999 - 1940

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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.

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Bayesian - Probability - Planetary core - Knight - 1953

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Jeffreys received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1937.

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Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society - 1937

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