Gutenberg, Beno, 1889-1960
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- LCCN 58-8073: Contributions in geophysics in honor of Beno Gutenberg, 1958(hdg.: Gutenberg, Beno, 1889- )
- LCCN 65-28105: His Seismicity of the earth and associated phenomena, 1965, c1954(hdg.: Gutenberg, Beno, 1889- ; usage: B. Gutenberg)
- WWWA:v. 4 1961-1968 (Gutenberg, Beno; prof. geophysics; b. Darmstadt, Germany, June 4, 1889; PhD, Univ. Göttingen, 1911; came to US, 1930; naturalized, 1936; home: Pasadena, Calif.; d. Jan. 1960)
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Beno Gutenberg (; June 4, 1889 – January 25, 1960) was a German-American seismologist who made several important contributions to the science. He was a colleague and mentor of Charles Francis Richter at the California Institute of Technology and Richter's collaborator in developing the Richter scale for measuring an earthquake's magnitude.
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