Leon Knopoff
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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.
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Peter GouldAlso won honorary doctor of Louis Pasteur UniversityAlbert DefantAlso won Emil Wiechert Medal
James Freeman GilbertAlso won Fellow of the American Geophysical UnionIan S. E. CarmichaelAlso won Fellow of the American Geophysical UnionJulius BartelsAlso won Emil Wiechert Medal
Harold Warris ThompsonAlso won honorary doctor of Louis Pasteur UniversityAbout this person
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.
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