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American geophysicist and musicologist
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
1 July 1925(Los Angeles, USA)
Death:
20 January 2011(Sherman Oaks, USA)
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Education:
Doctor of Philosophy
California Institute of Technology
( - 1949)
The details
Biography
Introduction
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.
Honors and awards
- Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 1962.
- Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 1963.
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1964.
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1965.
- Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, 1976.
- Recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1979.
- Medal of the Seismological Society of America, 1990.
- Member of the American Philosophical Society, 1992.