Professor
Paul G. Richards
Columbia University
Seismologist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth Sciences
Elected
2008
Mellon Professor of Natural Sciences. Leader in the development and application of seismological monitoring of underground nuclear explosions. Studied the Earth's interior from the shallow crust to the inner core, both observationally and theoretically. Textbook Quantitative Seismology(2002) with Kei Aki, is a fundamental reference in the field.
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