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Charles Francis Richter

1900 - 1985

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Charles Francis Richter (; April 26, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an American seismologist and physicist. He is the namesake and one of the creators of the Richter magnitude scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, was widely used to quantify the size of earthquakes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Francis Richter has received more than 326,449 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Charles Francis Richter is the 2nd most popular geologist, the 372nd most popular biography from United States (down from 263rd in 2019) and the most popular American Geologist.

Richter is most famous for the Richter magnitude scale, which quantifies the magnitude of an earthquake.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Charles Francis Richter ranks 2 out of 59Before him are Alfred Wegener. After him are Nicolas Steno, Charles Lyell, Mary Anning, Inge Lehmann, Milutin Milanković, James Hutton, Andrija Mohorovičić, Friedrich Mohs, Eduard Suess, and Francis Beaufort.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Charles Francis Richter ranks 19Before him are Heinrich Müller, Vasily Chuikov, Margaret Mitchell, Adolf Dassler, Jacques Prévert, and Dennis Gabor. After him are Sándor Márai, Urho Kekkonen, Hans Fritzsche, Giorgos Seferis, Hans Adolf Krebs, and Kurt Weill. Among people deceased in 1985, Charles Francis Richter ranks 13Before him are Fernand Braudel, Carl Schmitt, Italo Calvino, László Bíró, Simone Signoret, and Rock Hudson. After him are Dian Fossey, Jean Dubuffet, Simon Kuznets, Lon Nol, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Philip Larkin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Francis Richter ranks 372 out of 18,182Before him are Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936), Calvin Klein (1942), J. P. Morgan (1837), Paulette Goddard (1910), Faye Dunaway (1941), and Rock Hudson (1925). After him are Jay Leno (1950), Jennifer Lopez (1969), George Herbert Mead (1863), Dan Brown (1964), Zachary Taylor (1784), and Kurt Cobain (1967).

Among GEOLOGISTS In United States

Among geologists born in United States, Charles Francis Richter ranks 1After him are Harry Hammond Hess (1906), Barnum Brown (1873), Niles Eldredge (1943), M. King Hubbert (1903), James Hall (1811), David A. Johnston (1949), Daniel Barringer (1860), Walter Alvarez (1940), Hugo Benioff (1899), Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843), and John Bell Hatcher (1861).