Charles Francis Richter
Physicist, Academic
1900 – 1985
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Who was Charles Francis Richter?
Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist. Richter is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes. Inspired by Kiyoo Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, Richter first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg; both worked at California Institute of Technology. The quote "logarithmic plots are a device of the devil" is attributed to Richter.
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- Born
- Apr 26, 1900
Overpeck - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Stanford University
- California Institute of Technology
- Employment
- California Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- Ohio
- Hamilton
- Died
- Sep 30, 1985
Pasadena
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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