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Hiroo Kanamori | |
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金森 博雄 | |
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| Born | October 17, 1936 |
| Alma mater | Tokyo University (M. S., 1961; Ph.D., 1964) |
| Known for | Moment magnitude scale |
| Awards | Kyoto Prize (2007) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geophysics |
| Institutions | Research Associate, Geophysics Institute, Tokyo University, 1962–65 Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1965–66 Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo University, 1966–72 Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1972-05 |
| Doctoral students | Seth Stein |
Hiroo Kanamori (金森 博雄, Kanamori Hiroo, born October 17, 1936) is a Japanese-American seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of earthquakes and the tectonic processes that cause them.