Leon Knopoff
Leon Knopoff (July 1, 1925 – January 20, 2011) was an American
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.[2]
He also made contributions to the fields of musical perception and archaeology.
Honors and awards
- Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 1962.
- Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 1963.[3]
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1964.[2]
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1965.[2]
- Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, 1976.[2]
- Recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1979.[4]
- Medal of the Seismological Society of America, 1990.[2]
- Member of the American Philosophical Society, 1992.[2][5]
References
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- ^ a b c d e f "Obituary: Leon Knopoff, 85, internationally distinguished UCLA scientist". Retrieved 2013-11-18.
- ^ "National Academy of Sciences Member Directory". Retrieved 2013-11-18.
- Bibcode:1981QJRAS..22....1S.
- ^ "APS Member History".
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