Leon Knopoff
Astronomer
1925 – 2011
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Who was Leon Knopoff?
Leon Knopoff was a geophysicist and musicologist. He received his education at Caltech, graduating in 1949 with a PhD in physics, and came to UCLA the following year. He served on the UCLA faculty for 60 years. His research interests spanned a wide variety of fields and included the physics and statistics of earthquakes, earthquake prediction, the interior structure of the Earth, plate tectonics, pattern recognition, non-linear earthquake dynamics and several other areas of solid Earth geophysics. He also made contributions to the fields of musical perception and archaeology.
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- Born
- Jul 1, 1925
Los Angeles - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, California Institute of Technology
Physics
( - 1949) - Mathematics
- PhD, California Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- Sherman Oaks
(1950 - 2011/01/20)
- Sherman Oaks
- Died
- Jan 20, 2011
Sherman Oaks
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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