GEOLOGIST

Hiroo Kanamori

1936 - Today

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Hiroo Kanamori (金森 博雄, Kanamori Hiroo, born October 17, 1936) is a Japanese-American seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of earthquakes and the tectonic processes that cause them. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiroo Kanamori has received more than 58,352 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Hiroo Kanamori is the 38th most popular geologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 58k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Hiroo Kanamori ranks 38 out of 90. Before him are Anna Missuna, Adolphe d'Archiac, Harry Hammond Hess, Édouard Lartet, Joachim Barrande, and Alexander von Keyserling. After him are Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Arthur Holmes, John Phillips, Alexander Karpinsky, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, and Henryk Arctowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Hiroo Kanamori ranks 284. Before him are Bobby Seale, Karol Divín, Željko Perušić, Edén Pastora, Anthony Zerbe, and Alex Rocco. After him are Ivan Dias, Guillermo Escalada, Nicol Williamson, Emil Loteanu, Elisabeth Kopp, and Ivan Marchuk.

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