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59 relations: Adams Prize, Alfred Wegener, Astronomer, Bayesian probability, Bertha Swirles, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Bruno de Finetti, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Continental drift, Copley Medal, County Durham, Durham University, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Fatfield, Fellow of the Royal Society, Frank P. Ramsey, Geophysics, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Guy Medal, Hermann Bondi, International Seismological Centre, Internet Archive, Irrational number, Jeffreys prior, Knight Bachelor, Macmillan Publishers, Mary Cartwright, Methuen Publishing, Murchison Medal, Newcastle upon Tyne, Notes and Records, Oxford University Press, Planetary core, Plate tectonics, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, Probability, Richard Jeffrey, Ronald Fisher, Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium, Royal Medal, Royal Society, Royal Statistical Society, Schrödinger equation, St John's College, Cambridge, Sydney Goldstein, Taylor & Francis, University of Cambridge, University of London International Programmes, ..., V. S. Huzurbazar, Vaughan Cornish, Vetlesen Prize, W. W. Norton & Company, Washington, Tyne and Wear, William Bowie Medal, William H. Jefferys, WKB approximation, Wollaston Medal. Expand index (9 more) »
Adams Prize
The Adams Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes awarded by the University of Cambridge.
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Alfred Wegener
Alfred Lothar Wegener (–) was a German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist.
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Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who concentrates their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.
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Bayesian probability
Bayesian probability is an interpretation of the concept of probability, in which, instead of frequency or propensity of some phenomenon, probability is interpreted as reasonable expectation representing a state of knowledge or as quantification of a personal belief.
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Bertha Swirles
Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys (22 May 1903 – 18 December 1999) was a British physicist who carried out research on quantum theory, particularly in its early days.
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
The Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is an academic journal on the history of science published annually by the Royal Society.
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS) is a peer-reviewed, academic journal of philosophy, owned by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS), and published by Oxford University Press.
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Bruno de Finetti
Bruno de Finetti (13 June 1906 – 20 July 1985) was an Italian probabilist statistician and actuary, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability.
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Cambridge
Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.
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Continental drift
Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other, thus appearing to "drift" across the ocean bed.
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Copley Medal
The Copley Medal is a scientific award given by the Royal Society, for "outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science." It alternates between the physical and the biological sciences.
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County Durham
County Durham (locally) is a county in North East England.
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Durham University
Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, North East England, with a second campus in Stockton-on-Tees.
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Edwin Thompson Jaynes
Edwin Thompson Jaynes (July 5, 1922 – April 30, 1998) was the Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Fatfield
Fatfield is a village in Washington new town in the City of Sunderland local government district, in Tyne and Wear, England.
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Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".
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Frank P. Ramsey
Frank Plumpton Ramsey (22 February 1903 – 19 January 1930) was a British philosopher, mathematician and economist who made fundamental contributions to abstract algebra before his death at the age of 26.
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Geophysics
Geophysics is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis.
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Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is the highest award given by the RAS.
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Guy Medal
The Guy Medals are awarded by the Royal Statistical Society in three categories; Gold, Silver and Bronze.
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Hermann Bondi
Sir Hermann Bondi (1 November 1919 – 10 September 2005) was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist.
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International Seismological Centre
The International Seismological Centre (ISC) is a non-governmental, nonprofit organization charged with the final collection, definitive analysis and publication of global seismicity.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.
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Irrational number
In mathematics, the irrational numbers are all the real numbers which are not rational numbers, the latter being the numbers constructed from ratios (or fractions) of integers.
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Jeffreys prior
In Bayesian probability, the Jeffreys prior, named after Sir Harold Jeffreys, is a non-informative (objective) prior distribution for a parameter space; it is proportional to the square root of the determinant of the Fisher information matrix: It has the key feature that it is invariant under reparameterization of the parameter vector \vec\theta.
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Knight Bachelor
The dignity of Knight Bachelor is the most basic and lowest rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.
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Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
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Mary Cartwright
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright, (17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998) was a British mathematician.
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Methuen Publishing
Methuen Publishing Ltd is an English publishing house.
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Murchison Medal
The Murchison Medal is an academic award established by Roderick Murchison, who died in 1871.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.
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Notes and Records
Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science is an international, quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes original research in the history of science, technology, and medicine.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Planetary core
The planetary core consists of the innermost layer(s) of a planet; which may be composed of solid and liquid layers.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.
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Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
The Plumian chair of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy is one of the two major Professorships in Astronomy at Cambridge University, alongside the Lowndean Professorship.
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Probability
Probability is the measure of the likelihood that an event will occur.
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Richard Jeffrey
Richard Carl Jeffrey (August 5, 1926 – November 9, 2002) was an American philosopher, logician, and probability theorist.
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Ronald Fisher
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962), who published as R. A. Fisher, was a British statistician and geneticist.
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Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium
The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB) is an association which promotes and organises science and the arts in Belgium by coordinating the national and international activities of its constituent academies such as the National Scientific Committees and the representation of Belgium in international scientific organisations.
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Royal Medal
A Royal Medal, known also as The King's Medal or The Queen's Medal, depending on the gender of the monarch at the time of the award, is a silver-gilt medal, of which three are awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge" and one for "distinguished contributions in the applied sciences", done within the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Royal Society
The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.
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Royal Statistical Society
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is one of the world's most distinguished and renowned statistical societies.
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Schrödinger equation
In quantum mechanics, the Schrödinger equation is a mathematical equation that describes the changes over time of a physical system in which quantum effects, such as wave–particle duality, are significant.
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St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge (the full, formal name of the college is The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge).
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Sydney Goldstein
Sydney Goldstein FRS (3 December 1903, Kingston upon Hull – 22 January 1989, Cambridge, MA) was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics.
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Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.
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University of London International Programmes
The University of London (formerly International Programmes) is a central academic body within the University of London, which manages external study programmes.
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V. S. Huzurbazar
Vasant Shankar Huzurbazar (15 September 1919 – 15 November 1991) was an Indian statistician from Kolhapur.
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Vaughan Cornish
Vaughan Cornish (22 December 1862 - 1 May 1948) was an English geographer.
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Vetlesen Prize
The Vetlesen Prize is a prize in geology awarded jointly by Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation.
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Washington, Tyne and Wear
Washington is a new town in the City of Sunderland local government district of Tyne and Wear, England, and part of historic County Durham.
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William Bowie Medal
The William Bowie Medal is awarded annually by the American Geophysical Union for "outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics and for unselfish cooperation in research".
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William H. Jefferys
William H. "Bill" Jefferys (born 1940) is an American astronomer.
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WKB approximation
In mathematical physics, the WKB approximation or WKB method is a method for finding approximate solutions to linear differential equations with spatially varying coefficients.
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Wollaston Medal
The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.
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