biography
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| (1857–1949)
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| biography:
| Geologist, born in Idlewild-on-Hudson, New York, USA. He served the US Geological Survey (1884–1916), taking leaves to explore China (1902) and Argentina (1911–15). He joined Stanford (1915), where his lectures and research on seismology earned him the sobriquets the earthquake professor and Earthquake Willie. After his retirement (1922), he travelled to seismic centres of the world, and his conclusion that earthquakes cannot be predicted led to his proposals for better building codes in earthquake-intensive areas. |
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