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    Beno Gutenberg (/ˈɡuːtənbɜːrɡ/; June 4, 1889 – January 25, 1960) was a German-American seismologist who made several important contributions to the science...
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  • move deeper and deeper within Earth's core. The Gutenberg discontinuity was named after Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960) a seismologist who made several important...
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  • the Gutenberg–Richter scale, is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Francis Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and...
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    first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg; both worked at the California Institute of Technology. Richter was...
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  • Beno Dorn, Polish-English master tailor Beno Eckmann (1917–2008), Swiss mathematician Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960), German-American seismologist Benő Káposzta...
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  • Gutenberg is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960), German-born seismologist Erich Gutenberg (1897–1984)...
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  • it summarizes a region's seismic activity. The term was coined by Beno Gutenberg and Charles Francis Richter in 1941. Seismicity is studied by geophysicists...
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    magnitude and frequency was first proposed by Charles Francis Richter and Beno Gutenberg in a 1944 paper studying earthquakes in California, and generalised...
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  • Charles Francis Richter in 1935, with modifications from both Richter and Beno Gutenberg throughout the 1940s and 1950s. It is currently used in People's Republic...
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    distant events that were used (especially by European scientists like Beno Gutenberg) to study the attributes of the Earth's interior. Seismometers that...
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