Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys
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a British mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer
Born
22 April 1891 Fatfield, County Durham, England
Died
18 March 1989 (aged 97) Cambridge, England
Fields
mathematics geophysics
Alma mater
Armstrong College
Awards
Adams Prize (1926) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1937) Fellow of the Royal Society (1925) Murchison Medal (1939) Royal Medal (1948) William Bowie Medal (1952) Guy Medal (Gold, 1962) Vetlesen
Spouse(s)
Bertha Swirles
adultbasic
Britain
Doctoral students
Herman Bondi Sydney Goldstein Vasant Huzurbazar
era
1800+