GEOLOGIST

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 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 335,330 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Charles Francis Richter is the 3rd most popular geologist (down from 2nd in 2019), the 415th most popular biography from United States (down from 372nd 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 3 out of 90. Before him are Alfred Wegener, and Milutin Milanković. After him are Nicolas Steno, Charles Lyell, Inge Lehmann, Andrija Mohorovičić, Mary Anning, James Hutton, Eduard Suess, Friedrich Mohs, and Francis Beaufort.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Charles Francis Richter ranks 20. Before him are Vasily Chuikov, Margaret Mitchell, Spencer Tracy, Dennis Gabor, Sándor Márai, and Jacques Prévert. After him are Urho Kekkonen, Eyvind Johnson, Hans Fritzsche, Giorgos Seferis, Hans Adolf Krebs, and Richard Kuhn. Among people deceased in 1985, Charles Francis Richter ranks 15. Before him are Fernand Braudel, Orson Welles, László Bíró, Jean Dubuffet, Rock Hudson, and Simon Kuznets. After him are Dian Fossey, Lon Nol, Philip Larkin, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Anne Baxter, and Ferhat Abbas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Francis Richter ranks 415 out of 20,380. Before him are Prince (1958), Jack Ruby (1911), Paul Tibbets (1915), Willis Carrier (1876), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), and Jon Brower Minnoch (1941). After him are Herman Hollerith (1860), Melvin Calvin (1911), Jesse James (1847), William McKinley (1843), Kim Basinger (1953), and Natalie Wood (1938).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United States

Among geologists born in United States, Charles Francis Richter ranks 1. After him are Barnum Brown (1873), Harry Hammond Hess (1906), Niles Eldredge (1943), Hugo Benioff (1899), James Hall (1811), William Barton Rogers (1804), Walter Alvarez (1940), Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829), M. King Hubbert (1903), David A. Johnston (1949), and Daniel Barringer (1860).

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