Died 1960-01-25.
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Beno Gutenberg
Beno Gutenberg was a German-American seismologist who made several important contributions to the science. He was a colleague and mentor of Charles Francis Richter at the California Institute of Technology and Richter's collaborator in developing the Richter scale for measuring an earthquake's magnitude.
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science · German-American seismologist · seismologist · meteorologist · university teacher · geologist · geophysicist · physicist · also Beno Gutenberg, B. Gutenberg, Gutenberg
Born 4 June 1889 · Died 25 January 1960 · Q76770
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1960· 1 entry
1956· 2 entries
Won Emil Wiechert Medal (1956).
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Published “Earthquake magnitude, intensity, energy, and acceleration” in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America — cited 905 times.
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1953· 1 entry
Won William Bowie Medal (1953).
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1952· 1 entry
Gutenberg received the Prix Charles Lagrange from the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1945).
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1944· 1 entry
Published “Frequency of earthquakes in California*” in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America — cited 3,698 times.
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1942· 1 entry
Published “Earthquake magnitude, intensity, energy, and acceleration*” in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America — cited 541 times.
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1933· 1 entry
Anyway like so many other scientists of Jewish ancestry, at least 30 of whom emigrated to the United States under Gutenberg's sponsorship
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1930· 1 entry
Becoming founding director of the Seismological Laboratory when it was transferred to Caltech from Carnegie
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1928· 1 entry
The attempt to become the successor of his academic teacher, Emil Wiechert, in Göttingen, failed
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1926· 1 entry
A junior professorship at University of Frankfurt-am-Main, which was poorly paid
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1911· 1 entry
Studied at University of Göttingen, Doctor of Philosophy (1911).
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1889· 1 entry
Born 1889-06-04.
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