biography
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Richter, Charles (Francis)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1900–85)
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| biography:
| Seismologist, born near Hamilton, Ohio, USA. He studied at the University of Southern California and at the California Institute of Technology, where he taught from 1936. With Beno Gutenberg he devised the scale of earthquake strength which now bears his name (1927–35). |
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