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Author Hough, Susan Elizabeth, 1961-

Title Richter's scale : measure of an earthquake, measure of a man / Susan Elizabeth Hough
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; 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 FarewellBibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Earthquakes by Date
Summary Chronicles the troubled life, scientific work, and poetry of the American scientist, Charles Richter, who developed a scale that measures the magnitude of earthquakes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-324) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Richter, Charles, 1900-1985.
SUBJECT Richter, Charles, 1900-1985 fast
Richter, Charles Geologe. swd
Subject Seismologists -- United States -- Biography
Richter scale.
Earthquakes.
Earthquakes
earthquakes.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
Earthquakes
Richter scale
Seismologists
Erdbeben
Richter-Skala
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1400884446
9781400884445
0691128073
9780691128078