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单词 Jeffreys, Sir Harold (1891–1989)
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Jeffreys, Sir Harold (1891–1989)

Mathematics
  • who made important contributions in probability and calculus as well as in our understanding of the solar system.


Statistics
  • Jeffreys studied at Cambridge U, being made a Fellow of St John's College in 1914 and holding this title for a record 75 years. From 1946 to 1958 he was Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. He was interested in scientific method and developed Bayesian inference. He was elected FRS in 1925 and was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1948 and its Copley Medal in 1960. He was elected to membership of the NAS in 1945 and was elected FRSE in 1953. In 1953 he was knighted. He was awarded the Guy Medal in Gold of the RSS in 1962.

    http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/seismology/people/int_jeffreys.html Interview and photograph.


Geology and Earth Sciences
  • who studied seismic waves and developed a model for the interior structure of the Earth. His tables of earthquake travel times, calculated in collaboration with K. E. Bullen (1906–76), are still in use. He proposed the tidal theory for the origin of the solar system.


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