Name Leon Knopoff | Role Geophysicist | |
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Died January 20, 2011, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, United States Education California Institute of Technology (1949) Awards Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada |
Leon Knopoff (July 1, 1925 – January 20, 2011) was a 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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