Richter's Scale : Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man /

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By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely rec...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hough, Susan Elizabeth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Earthquakes.
Richter scale.
Seismologists > United States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
1811-12 New Madrid earthquakes.
1952 Kern County earthquake.
Active fault.
Allen Say.
American Association of Variable Star Observers.
Another Woman.
Asperger syndrome.
Autism.
Barbara McClintock.
Benioff.
Beno Gutenberg.
Book.
Boris Podolsky.
Calculation.
Career.
Charles Francis Richter.
Child abuse.
Clarence Allen (geologist).
Classic book.
Disaster.
Distrust.
Dr. Seuss.
Dysfunctional family.
Earthquake insurance.
Earthquake prediction.
Electra complex.
Emerging technologies.
Emotional baggage.
Ernest Rutherford.
Female hysteria.
Field Act.
Foreshock.
Freaks.
Geologist.
Graduate school.
Grandparent.
Hanks.
Harold Jeffreys.
Headline.
Hiking.
Hiroo Kanamori.
His Family.
Hugo Benioff.
Hypothyroidism.
I Wish (manhwa).
IBM Selectric typewriter.
In Death.
Inception.
Incest.
Indication (medicine).
Industrial Workers of the World.
Inge Lehmann.
Joan Baez.
Keiiti Aki.
Lord Byron.
Luke Jackson (author).
Margaret Atwood.
Mark Storey.
Meanness.
Modern physics.
Mount Wilson Observatory.
Mrs.
National security.
Neurosis.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Nobel Prize.
Nuclear family.
Nuclear winter.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Plate tectonics.
Political correctness.
Popular Science.
Prediction.
Procrastination.
Quantum mechanics.
Racism.
Rain Man.
Ramapo Fault.
Richter magnitude scale.
San Andreas Fault.
Scientist.
Seismological Society of America.
Seismology.
Seismometer.
Southern California.
Supervisor.
Sylvia Nasar.
Symptom.
T. S. Eliot.
Testimonial.
The Parliament of Man.
The Tumor.
Thomas Wolfe.
To This Day.
Total loss.
Treasure trove.
Tsunami.
V.
Virginia Woolf.
Writing.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. The Magnitude of the Problem
  • Chapter 2. Formative Years
  • Chapter 3. Margaret Rose
  • Chapter 4. Harnessing the Horses
  • Chapter 5. Earthquake Exploration
  • Chapter 6. The Kresge Era
  • Chapter 7. Beno Gutenberg
  • Chapter 8. Earthquake!
  • Chapter 9. Richter Scale
  • Chapter 10. Charlie
  • Chapter 11. Lillian
  • Chapter 12. Richter's Women
  • Chapter 13. Autumn
  • Chapter 14. Asperger's Syndrome
  • Chapter 15. Here It Comes Again
  • Chapter 16. Predicting the Unpredictable
  • Chapter 17. Sizing Up Earthquake Hazard
  • Chapter 18. Hazard in a Nuclear Age
  • Chapter 19. Supernova
  • Appendix. A Belated Farewell
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Earthquakes by Date

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