Hugo Benioff
Hugo Benioff · Science & Medicine
Seismologist who developed the Benioff seismograph and identified the deep-earthquake Wadati-Benioff zones marking subducting plates
1899, Los Angeles, California, United States — 1968, Mendocino, California, United States
United States
Hugo Benioff is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Seismologist who developed the Benioff seismograph and identified the deep-earthquake Wadati-Benioff zones marking subducting plates
Benioff was an American seismologist who built exceptionally sensitive seismographs and identified the deep, inclined earthquake zones (Wadati–Benioff zones) now understood as marking subducting tectonic plates. His father was a Russian-Jewish immigrant and his mother a Swedish Lutheran.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
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Seismologist who developed the Benioff seismograph and identified the deep-earthquake Wadati-Benioff zones marking subducting plates
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
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