Finding the right method for constructing such " objective " priors ( for appropriate classes of regular problems ) has been the quest of statistical theorists from Laplace to John Maynard Keynes, Harold Jeffreys, and Edwin Thompson Jaynes: These theorists and their successors have suggested several methods for constructing " objective " priors:

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term ' frequentist ' was first used by M. G. Kendall in 1949, to contrast with Bayesians, whom he called " non-frequentists " ( he cites Harold Jeffreys ).

* Harold Jeffreys, 1891-1989, London, ( England )

One of the earliest important discoveries ( suggested by Richard Dixon Oldham in 1906 and definitively shown by Harold Jeffreys in 1926 ) was that the outer core of the earth is liquid.

* Jeffreys, Harold

There have been other attempts to derive Occam's Razor from probability theory, notable attempts made by Harold Jeffreys and E. T. Jaynes.

Stephen Fienberg describes the evolution from " inverse probability " at the time of Bayes and Laplace, a term still used by Harold Jeffreys ( 1939 ), to " Bayesian " in the 1950s.

This interpretation was adopted within two to three years by other leading seismologists of the time, such as Beno Gutenberg, Charles Richter, and Harold Jeffreys.

Still, according to the preface of his Theory of Probability, he drew on ideas of Harold Jeffreys, I. J Good and B. O.

Recipients to date include Sir Victor Negus, Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Sir Stanford Cade ( all three in 1969 ), Professor Harold Ellis ( 1998 ), Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys ( 2002 ) and Dr Barry J. Marshall ( 2005 ).

* Harold Jeffreys ( 1946 – 1958 )

In 1923, mathematician Harold Jeffreys had developed a general method of approximating solutions to linear, second-order differential equations, which includes the Schrödinger equation.

Known also as the tidal disruption or tidal filament hypothesis, this conception of how our solar system formed was proposed in 1918 by two British scientists, Sir James Jeans and Sir Harold Jeffreys.

Harold Jeffreys gave a scale for interpretation of K:

* 1937 Harold Jeffreys

Plaque to Sir Harold Jeffreys, Newcastle University

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

The dedication reads, " Dedicated to the memory of Sir Harold Jeffreys, who saw the truth and preserved it.

* Collected Papers of Sir Harold Jeffreys on Geophysics and Other Sciences, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1971 – 77

" Harold Jeffreys ' Probabilistic Epistemology: Between Logicism And Subjectivism ".

* Bertha Swirles, Reminiscences and Discoveries: Harold Jeffreys from 1891 to 1940, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol.

* Photographs of Harold Jeffreys at Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, American Institute of Physics.

* Biography of Vetlesen Prize Winner – Sir Harold Jeffreys

* Harold Jeffreys as a Statistician

* 1903 – Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer ( d. 1990 )

* 1887 – Harold Lockwood, American actor ( d. 1918 )

* 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

* 1939 – Harold Reid, American singer-songwriter ( The Statler Brothers )

* 1974 – Harold Hunter, American skateboarder and actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1933 – 1955 Sir Harold Spencer Jones

* Harold Rose ( 1925 – 26 )

The original editor was George Moonie, 1938 – 1959, followed by Harold Cramond, 1959-84.

* Harold S. Black ( 1898 – 1983 ), invented the concept of negative feedback amplifiers in 1927.

* 1899 – Harold Abrahams, English sprinter ( d. 1978 )

* 1954 – Harold Hongju Koh, American lawyer and Obama Administration advisor

* 1967 – Harold Holt, Australian politician ( b. 1908 )

Janssen was born as David Harold Meyer in Naponee, Nebraska to Harold Edward Meyer, a banker ( May 12, 1906 – November 4, 1990 ) and Berniece Graf ( May 11, 1910 – November 26, 1995 ).

* 1966 – Dave Harold, English snooker player

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

With Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall, he was one of the editors of the 1967 May Day Manifesto, one of the key left-wing challenges to the 1964 – 70 Labour government of Harold Wilson.

For a thorough defense of the Pauline authorship of Ephesians, see Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary by Harold Hoehner, pp 2 – 61.

In 2006 the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson alleged that there had been another plot involving Mountbatten to oust Wilson during his second term in office ( 1974 – 76 ).

* 2004 – Harold Bernard St. John, Barbadian politician, ( b. 1931 )

* 1891 – Harold Horder, Australian rugby league player ( d. 1978 )