A German American seismologist at Caltech who mapped the boundary between Earth's mantle and its core from seismic wave shadows, and who partnered with his student Charles Richter to build the earthquake magnitude scale that carries Richter's name alone in popular use. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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BirthplaceDarmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Germany 1 Defining ContributionIdentified the core-mantle boundary now called the Gutenberg discontinuity, and, working with Charles Richter at the California Institute of Technology, co-developed the magnitude scale for measuring earthquakes and the Gutenberg-Richter law relating earthquake frequency to magnitude. 1 Notable Work Notable WorkSeismicity of the Earth 2 Connections
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was a German-American seismologist who made several important contributions to the science.
2. Beno Gutenberg (Wikidata)
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died in Pasadena
Wikidata item aliases (en) [1]
also known as B. Gutenberg
P800 (notable work) [1]
notable work: Seismicity of the Earth
P800 (notable work) [2]
notable work: Richter scale
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citizen of Germany
P27 (country of citizenship) [2]
citizen of United States
P19 (place of birth) [1]
born in Darmstadt
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