Charles Francis Richter
Also known as Charles F Richter, C. F. Richter, C.F. Richter, C F Richter, C. Richter, Charles F. Richter
Seismologist and mathematician
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Charles Francis Richter was a seismologist and mathematician who developed methods for measuring and understanding earthquakes. His work matters because it provided scientists with tools to quantify earthquake strength, which has been fundamental to understanding seismic activity and assessing earthquake hazards.
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Charles Francis Richter (/ˈrɪktər/; April 26, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an American seismologist and physicist. He is the namesake and one of the creators of the Richter scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, was widely used to quantify the size of earthquakes. Inspired by Kiyoo Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, Richter first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg; both worked at the California Institute of Technology.
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