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Harold Jeffreys

1891 - 1989

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Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold Jeffreys has received more than 159,128 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Harold Jeffreys is the 589th most popular mathematician (down from 486th in 2019), the 2,740th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,355th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Harold Jeffreys ranks 589 out of 1,004. Before him are Ulisse Dini, Harald Cramér, Mikio Sato, Shigefumi Mori, Dmitri Egorov, and Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat. After him are Boris Delaunay, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Edward Routh, Lipót Fejér, G. I. Taylor, and David Ruelle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Harold Jeffreys ranks 165. Before him are Grunya Sukhareva, Federico Moreno Torroba, Alexander Volkov, William F. Albright, Camille Mandrillon, and David Sarnoff. After him are Ferdinand Bruckner, Miguel Pro, Carl Spaatz, Edmund Goulding, Karl Allmendinger, and Harry Cohn. Among people deceased in 1989, Harold Jeffreys ranks 164. Before him are Anton Diffring, János Farkas, Kaj Franck, Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze. After him are José Bustamante y Rivero, Don Revie, Veniamin Kaverin, Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, Antonio Janigro, and Frank Foss.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harold Jeffreys ranks 2,740 out of 8,785. Before him are Anne of York (1475), James B. Francis (1815), Ioan Gruffudd (1973), Lily Collins (1989), Melanie C (1974), and Laura Mulvey (1941). After him are Graham McTavish (1961), Alan White (1949), Antony Gormley (1950), Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915), Andrew V. McLaglen (1920), and John Gilbert Baker (1834).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Harold Jeffreys ranks 55. Before him are John Hadley (1682), Thomas Wright (1711), Egon Pearson (1895), Sydney Chapman (1888), Paul Bernays (1888), and Ernest William Brown (1866). After him are Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), G. I. Taylor (1886), William Burnside (1852), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), William Whiston (1667), and John Pell (1611).

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