| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 The Magnitude of the Problem; CHAPTER 2 Formative Years; CHAPTER 3 Margaret Rose; CHAPTER 4 Harnessing the Horses; CHAPTER 5 Earthquake Exploration; CHAPTER 6 The Kresge Era; CHAPTER 7 Beno Gutenberg; CHAPTER 8 Earthquake!; CHAPTER 9 Richter Scale; CHAPTER 10 Charlie; CHAPTER 11 Lillian; CHAPTER 12 Richter's Women; CHAPTER 13 Autumn; CHAPTER 14 Asperger's Syndrome; CHAPTER 15 Here It Comes Again; CHAPTER 16 Predicting the Unpredictable; CHAPTER 17 Sizing Up Earthquake Hazard; CHAPTER 18 Hazard in a Nuclear Age; CHAPTER 19 Supernova |
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APPENDIX: A Belated FarewellBibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Earthquakes by Date |
| Summary |
Chronicles the troubled life, scientific work, and poetry of the American scientist, Charles Richter, who developed a scale that measures the magnitude of earthquakes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-324) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Richter, Charles, 1900-1985.
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Richter, Charles, 1900-1985 |
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Richter, Charles Geologe. |
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Seismologists -- United States -- Biography
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Richter scale.
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Earthquakes.
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Earthquakes
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earthquakes.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
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Earthquakes
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Richter scale
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Seismologists
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Erdbeben
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Richter-Skala
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1400884446 |
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9781400884445 |
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0691128073 |
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9780691128078 |
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