Leon Knopoff American Scientist
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| First Name |
Leon
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| Last Name |
Knopoff
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| Birthday |
1st July, 1925
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| Died |
20th January, 2011
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| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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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.
