Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (died 1985)

Charles Richter

Seismologist and physicist (born 1900)

Charles Francis Richter 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. Inspired by Kiyoo…