Victor Conrad
Victor Conrad · Science & Medicine
Seismologist and climatologist who discovered the Conrad discontinuity within the continental crust
1876, Vienna, Austria — 1962, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Austria · United States
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Conrad was a seismologist and meteorologist, the first director of Austria's seismological service, who deduced from earthquake records a boundary within the continental crust separating its upper and lower layers, now called the Conrad discontinuity. He also contributed to climatology and the study of earthquake statistics. Born into a Jewish family in Vienna, he was persecuted for his ethnicity and emigrated to the United States in 1938.
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Seismologist and climatologist who discovered the Conrad discontinuity within the continental crust
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
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