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    Beno Gutenberg (/ˈɡuːtənbɜːrɡ/; June 4, 1889 – January 25, 1960) was a German-American seismologist who made several important contributions to the science...
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  • move deeper and deeper within Earth's core. The Gutenberg discontinuity was named after Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960) a seismologist who made several important...
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    first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg; both worked at the California Institute of Technology. Richter was...
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  • Beno Dorn, Polish-English master tailor Beno Eckmann (1917–2008), Swiss mathematician Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960), German-American seismologist Benő Káposzta...
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  • the Gutenberg–Richter scale, is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Francis Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and...
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  • Gutenberg is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960), German-born seismologist Erich Gutenberg (1897–1984)...
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  • it summarizes a region's seismic activity. The term was coined by Beno Gutenberg and Charles Francis Richter in 1941. Seismicity is studied by geophysicists...
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    magnitude and frequency was first proposed by Charles Francis Richter and Beno Gutenberg in a 1944 paper studying earthquakes in California, and generalised...
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    iron core. These were the foundations that one of Wiechert's students, Beno Gutenberg, used to discover the three-layered Earth in 1914. As part of Felix...
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  • Charles Francis Richter in 1935, with modifications from both Richter and Beno Gutenberg throughout the 1940s and 1950s. It is currently used in People's Republic...
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    crackling noise was done in the late 1940s by Charles Francis Richter and Beno Gutenberg who examined earthquakes analytically. Before the invention of the well-known...
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  • 1972) June 2 – Martha Wentworth, American actress (d. 1974) June 4 – Beno Gutenberg, German-American seismologist (d. 1960) June 10 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese...
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  • variously denoted as Ms, MS, and Ms, is based on a procedure developed by Beno Gutenberg in 1942 for measuring shallow earthquakes stronger or more distant than...
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  • film actress (b. 1921) Rutland Boughton, English composer (b. 1878) Beno Gutenberg, German-American seismologist (b. 1889) January 27 – Osvaldo Aranha...
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  • meters large) are called "Gutenberg" level, originally from Core–mantle boundary named after German seismologist Beno Gutenberg. The largest klaxosaur class...
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    such analysis of seismograms, the Earth's core was located in 1913 by Beno Gutenberg. S-waves and later arriving surface waves do most of the damage compared...
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    far from the currently accepted value of 1,221 km (759 mi). In 1938, Beno Gutenberg and Charles Richter analyzed a more extensive set of data and estimated...
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    recognized by Beno Gutenberg, whose name is sometimes used to refer to the base of the seismic LAB beneath oceanic lithosphere. The Gutenberg discontinuity...
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  • a surface-wave magnitude scale (Ms) by Beno Gutenberg in 1945, a body-wave magnitude scale (mB) by Gutenberg and Richter in 1956, and a number of variants...
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    distant events that were used (especially by European scientists like Beno Gutenberg) to study the attributes of the Earth's interior. Seismometers that...
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    Beno Gutenberg noticed the abrupt change in seismic velocities of the P waves and disappearance of S waves at the core-mantle boundary. Gutenberg attributed...
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    In November 1929, Milanković received an invitation from Professor Beno Gutenberg of Darmstadt to collaborate on a ten volume handbook on geophysics and...
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    (1887–1960) Friedrich Wilhelm Levi (1888–1966) Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960) André Danjon (1890–1967) Pauline Alderman (1893–1983) Henri...
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  • Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after German-born seismologist Beno Gutenberg, director of the California Institute of Technology seismology laboratory...
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  • Erich Andrée, Gustav Angenheister [de], Immanuel Friedländer [de], Beno Gutenberg, Franz Kossmat, Gerhard Krumbach [de], Karl Mack [de], Ludger Mintrop [de]...
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  • in United States in 1939 by American seismologists Hugo Benioff and Beno Gutenberg at the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, based on observations...
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    where Beno Gutenberg was his advisor. Gutenberg was a pupil of the founder of modern seismology Emil Johann Wiechert. Beno and Hertha Gutenberg later...
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    the waves emerge. Other leading seismologists of the time, such as Beno Gutenberg, Charles Richter, and Harold Jeffreys, adopted this interpretation within...
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    is in a liquid or molten form. The discontinuity was discovered by Beno Gutenberg, a seismologist who made several important contributions to the study...
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    University include the American banker J. P. Morgan, the seismologist Beno Gutenberg, the endocrinologist Hakaru Hashimoto, who studied there before World...
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