apr 26, 1900 - Charles Richter

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Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist. He is the namesake and one of the creators of the Richter magnitude scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, was widely used to quantify the size of earthquakes.

Born: Charles Francis Richter, April 26, 1900
Overpeck, Ohio, U.S.
Died: September 30, 1985 (aged 85)
Pasadena, California, U.S.
Known for: Richter magnitude scale,
Gutenberg–Richter law,
Surface-wave magnitude
Fields: Seismology, physics
Institutions: California Institute of Technology

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