Keiiti Aki
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| Born | March 3, 1930 Yokohama, Japan |
| Died | May 17, 2005 (aged 75) |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | the United States |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
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| Fields | Geophysics |
| Institutions | MIT University of Southern California |
| Doctoral students | Shamita Das |
Keiiti Aki (安芸 敬一, Aki Keiichi, March 3, 1930 – May 17, 2005) was a Japanese-American
Biography
Aki was born in Yokohama, Japan. He received his bachelor's degree in 1952 and doctoral degree in 1958, both from the University of Tokyo. Until 1960, he conducted research at that university's Earthquake Research Institute. He then did post-doctoral research at the Caltech Seismological Laboratory, where he worked with Frank Press.[2]
Press invited Aki to join him at
Aki was very active in his field and was the president or chair of many organizations. He was the president of Seismological Section of the
In 1995, Aki moved to the seismically active island Réunion, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, where he continued to work until his death there in 2005.[3] He sustained an injury to his brain from a fall while walking in the street on May 13; he fell into a coma and died on May 17. He left behind two sons (Shota and Zenta) and two daughters (Kajika and Uka).
Honors received
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1973)[4]
- Election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences(1979)
- Medal of Seismological Society of America (1986)
- Thorarinsson Medal from the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (2000)
- William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union (2004)
- Beno Gutenberg Medal of the European Geosciences Union (2005)
Selected publications
- Aki, Keiiti (1966). "4. Generation and propagation of G waves from the Niigata earthquake of June 14, 1964. Part 2. Estimation of earthquake moment, released energy and stress-strain drop from G wave spectrum" (PDF). Bulletin of the Earthquake Research Institute. 44: 73–88.
- Aki, Keiti; Richards, Paul G. (2002). Quantitative seismology (2 ed.). University Science Books. ISBN 0-935702-96-2.
References
- ^ "Keiiti Aki | Japanese seismologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
- ^ a b "Keiiti Aki: Seismological Polymath"[permanent dead link] Geotimes (March 2005)
- ^ "In memoriam: Keiiti Aki" Archived 2011-05-30 at the Wayback Machine, USC Trojan Magazine (Autumn, 2005)
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- Pearce, Jeremy (May 27, 2005). "Keiiti Aki, 75, Is Dead; Developed a Way to Measure the Strength of an Earthquake". The New York Times.
- "Biographical Sketch for: Keiiti Aki" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-04-05.
- AKI, Keiiti International Who's Who. accessed September 3, 2006.
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