# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-knopoff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:23:34.968Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-knopoff"
name: "Leon Knopoff"
slug: "leon-knopoff"
description: "Leon Knopoff was an American 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."
tagline: "American geophysicist and musicologist (1925-2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925-07-01"
deathDate: "2011-01-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.335925333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Knopoff"
    title: "Leon Knopoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%86%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "ليون كنوپوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Knopoff"
    title: "Leon Knopoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Knopoff"
    title: "Leon Knopoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Knopoff"
    title: "Leon Knopoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8E%E3%83%9D%E3%83%95"
    title: "レオン・ノポフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Knopoff"
    title: "Leon Knopoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q962770"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump