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.

* Harold Jeffreys – showed that the outer core is liquid

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 ).

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

Although Harry Brown's A Sound of Hunting had a run of only three weeks, Lancaster's performance drew the attention of a Hollywood agent, Harold Hecht, and through him to Hal Wallis, who cast Lancaster in The Killers ( 1946 ).

* Harold Russell, Academy Award winning actor for his portrayal of Homer Parrish, in the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives.

* 1946 – Harold Brown, American musician ( War, Lowrider Band )

More members joined by mid-May 1946, including Harold Gray ( Little Orphan Annie ) and the Society ’ s first animator, Paul Terry, followed in the summer by letterer Frank Engli, Bela Zaboly ( Popeye ), Al Capp ( Li ’ l Abner ) and Ray Bailey ( Bruce Gentry ).

1946-1965: Harold Rhodes subsequently founded The Rhodes Piano Corporation and introduced the Pre-Piano at NAMM 1946.

Dr Harold Fredrick Shipman ( 14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004 ) was an English doctor and one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history by proven murders with 250 + murders being positively ascribed to him.

St. John Vianney Parish was established on July 5, 1946 as the third Catholic parish in South St. Paul, under the direction of Father Harold Whittet.

* Harold Nicolson, The Congress of Vienna, Constable & Co Ltd, UK / Harcourt Brace and Company ( 1946 )

This term, which had first been used in 1919 in Berlin, was used again in 1946 by Robert Coates in The New York Times, and was taken up by the two major art critics of that time, Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg.

* 1946 – 1955 J. Harold Williams

* Scott, Harold, The Early Doors: origins of the music hall ( London, Nicholson & Watson 1946 )

* Harold Piper 1946 – 1948

* Harold Ray Brown ( born 1946 ), member of the 1970s band War

The first phalloplasty done for the purposes of sexual reassignment was performed on trans man Michael Dillon in 1946 by Dr. Harold Gillies, which is documented in Pagan Kennedy's book The First Man-Made Man.

Greenwood's son Anthony Greenwood ( later Lord Greenwood ) ( 1911 – 1982 ) was an MP from 1946 and a member of Harold Wilson's governments.

Kenneth Harold Norrie ( born 1946 ) is a Canadian economic historian specializing in the economy of Western Canada at the turn of the century.

* Most career consecutive league appearances: 375, Harold Bell ( Tranmere Rovers, 1946 to 1955 ( 401 consecutive club games including 26 FA Cup appearances )

A principal piece of evidence against the Vatican is the " Bigelow dispatch ", an October 16, 1946 dispatch from Emerson Bigelow in Rome to Harold Glasser, the director of monetary research for the U. S. Treasury Department.

When Maurice Stacey, the Professor of Chemistry at Birmingham, was asked by Harold Burn to recommend a student to go to Oxford and study pharmacology, Vane jumped at the chance and moved to Burn's department in 1946.

In 1966 he married Alexandra Anastasia " Sacha " Phillips ( b. 27 February 1946 ), eldest daughter of Lt .- Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips ( 1909 – 1980 ) and Georgina Wernher ( 1919 – 2011 ), elder daughter and co-heiress of Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Baronet, of Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire ).

In 1946, he persuaded the magazine's founder and editor, Harold Ross, to run John Hersey's story about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as the entire contents of one issue.

In 1946 she married Harold Knox.

Irene married her second husband, Harold E. Knox, in 1946 ; they divorced in 1961.