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Beno Gutenberg
Seismologist
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A German American seismologist at Caltech who mapped the boundary between Earth's mantle and its core from seismic wave shadows, and who partnered with his student Charles Richter to build the earthquake magnitude scale that carries Richter's name alone in popular use.
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BirthplaceDarmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Germany 1 Defining ContributionIdentified the core-mantle boundary now called the Gutenberg discontinuity, and, working with Charles Richter at the California Institute of Technology, co-developed the magnitude scale for measuring earthquakes and the Gutenberg-Richter law relating earthquake frequency to magnitude. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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