Richter's Scale - Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man

Zusatztext "Susan Hough has done her job extraordinarily well, turning a tangled-up story of a man hardly understood by others into a very fascinating biography." ---Pawel Wiejacz, Pure and Applied Geophysics Informationen zum Autor Susan Elizabeth Hough is a seismologist with the Southern California Earthquake Center and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Her books include Predicting the Unpredictable and Earthshaking Science (both Princeton). Klappentext "An extraordinary piece of scientific biography."--Seth Stein! coauthor of "Introduction to Seismology! Earthquakes! and Earth Structure" "Full of surprises. A story well worth reading."--Cliff Thurber! University of Wisconsin-Madison Zusammenfassung By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into a household word. This work takes the reader into Richter's life story, setting it in the context of his family and interpersonal attachments, and the history of seismology.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Susan Hough, Susan Elizabeth Hough, Hough Susan Elizabeth
• Edition: Princeton University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.01.2007
• EAN: 9780691128078
• ISBN: 978-0-691-12807-8
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 242 mm x 25 mm
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Nature, technique > Biographies, autobiographies; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général; popular science, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Seismology & Volcanism, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Volcanology & seismology, Volcanology and seismology