“I got a certain notoriety, but I'm not a public figure.”

— Charles Francis Richter

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About Charles Francis Richter

Scientist • American

Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist. He is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale, which quantified the size of earthquakes. Developed in collaboration with Beno...

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