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He was born in Fatfield , County Durham , England . He studied at Armstrong College in Newcastle Upon Tyne , then part of the University Of Durham but later to become the University Of Newcastle . He then went to St John's College, Cambridge and became a fellow in 1914 . At Cambridge University he taught Mathematics , then Geophysics and finally became the Plumian Professor Of Astronomy . He married another mathematician and physicist, Bertha Swirles ( 1903 - 1999 ), in 1940 and together they wrote ''Methods of Mathematical Physics''. Among his other contributions was a Bayesian approach to Probability (also see Jeffreys Prior ), and the idea that the Earth's Planetary Core was liquid. He was Knight ed in 1953 . Jeffreys received the Gold Medal Of The Royal Astronomical Society in 1937 . He should not be confused with William H. Jefferys , also both an astronomer and a Bayesian. REFERENCES
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