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Article: Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Science News
- Article date:
- February 3, 2007
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It's probably safe to say that only one seismologist is a household name. Charles Richter developed the now-standard system of measuring the strength of an earthquake. However, the man himself has been an enigma. Hough draws on a wealth of documents left behind by Richter at the California Institute of Technology, where he spent his professional career, to chronicle his rise to fame and explain his place in the history of seismology. Richter was an intensely private person who originally was more ...
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