Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (22. april 1891 – 18. marts 1989) var en britisk matematiker, statistiker, geofysiker og astronom. Hans bog, Theory of Probability, der blev udgivet første gang i 1939, spuillede en vigtig rolle i genoplivningen af objektiv Bayesiansk syn på sandsynlighed.
I 1940 blev han gift med matimatiker og fysik, Bertha Swirles (1903–1999), og sammen skrev de Methods of Mathematical Physics.
Hæder Fellow, Royal Society, 1925 Adams Prize, 1927 (Constitution of the Earth) Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society, 1937 Buchan Prize, Royal Meteorological Society, 1929 Murchison Medal of Geological Society (Great Britain) 1939 Victoria Medal, Royal Geographical Society, 1941 Charles Lagrange Prize, Brussels Academy, 1948 Royal Medal, 1948 William Bowie Medal, American Geophysical Union, 1952 Knighted, 1953 Copley Medal, Royal Society, 1961 Vetlesen Prize, 1962
Bibliografi 1924: The Earth, Its Origin, History and Physical Constitution, Cambridge University Press; 5th edn. 1970; 6th edn. 1976 1927: Operational Methods in Mathematical Physics, Cambridge University Press via Internet Archive, Review: 1929: The Future of the Earth, Norton & Company 1931: Scientific Inference, Macmillan Publishers; 2nd edn. 1937; 3rd edn. 1973 1931: Cartesian Tensors. Cambridge University Press; 2nd edn. 1961 1934: Ocean Waves and Kindred Geophysical Phenomena, with Vaughan Cornish, Cambridge University Press 1935: Earthquakes and Mountains, Methuen Publishing; 2nd edn. 1950 1939: Theory of Probability, Clarendon Press, Oxford; 2nd edn. 1948; 3rd edn. 1961 1946: Methods of Mathematical Physics, with Bertha S. Jeffreys. Cambridge University Press; 2nd edn. 1950; 3rd edn. 1956; corrected 3rd edn. 1966 1962: Asymptotic Approximations, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1963: Nutation and Forced Motion of the Earth's Pole from the Data of Latitude Observations, Macmillan 1971–77: Collected Papers of Sir Harold Jeffreys on Geophysics and Other Sciences, Gordon and Breach
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