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Hiroo Kanamori
Japanese seismologist
Hiroo Kanamori | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1936-10-17) October 17, 1936 (age 88) |
| Alma mater | Tokyo University (M. S., 1961; Ph.D., 1964) |
| Known for | Moment magnitude scale |
| Awards | Kyoto Prize (2007) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geophysics |
| Institutions | Research Associate, Geophysics Institute, Tokyo University, 1962–65 Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1965–66 Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo University, 1966–72 Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1972-05 |
| Doctoral students | Seth Stein |
Hiroo Kanamori (金森 博雄, Kanamori Hiroo, born October 17, 1936) is a Japanese-American seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of earthquakes and the tectonic processes that cause them.
Career
Kanamori and American seismologist Thomas C. Hanks developed the moment magnitude scale which replaced the Richter scale as a measurement of the rel