Charles Francis Richter

Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist. He is one of the creators of the Richter scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, was widely used to quantify the size of earthquakes.

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Who was born first?

• Charles Francis Richter and Frédéric Joliot-Curie were born the same year
• Charles Francis Richter and Ragnar Granit were born the same year
• Charles Francis Richter and Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin were born the same year
• Charles Francis Richter and Jan Hendrik Oort were born the same year
• Charles Francis Richter and W. Edwards Deming were born the same year

Timeline

1. Cecilia Helena Payne GaposchkinMay 10, 1900 – December 7, 1979
2. Charles Francis Richter (this page)April 26, 1900 – September 30, 1985
3. Frédéric Joliot-CurieMarch 19, 1900 – August 14, 1958
4. Jan Hendrik OortApril 28, 1900 – November 5, 1992
5. Ragnar GranitOctober 30, 1900 – March 12, 1991
6. W. Edwards DemingOctober 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993

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