- Keiiti Aki
Keiiti Aki (
March 3 1930 -May 17 2005 ) was aprofessor ,seismologist ,author andmentor . He co-authored with Paul Richards, "Quantitative Seismology: theory and methods".Aki was very active in his field and was the president or chair of many organizations. He was the president of Seismological Section of the AGU, president of the
Seismological Society of America , and Chair of the NAS Committee on Seismology. He was instrumental in the creation of theSouthern California Earthquake Center in 1991.Honors received
*Election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1979)
*Medal ofSeismological Society of America (1986)
*Thorarinsson Medal from theInternational Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (2000)
*William Bowie Medal of theAmerican Geophysical Union (2004)
*Gutenberg Medal of theEuropean Geosciences Union (2005)References
*citation | last = Pearce | first = Jeremy | title = Keiiti Aki, 75, Is Dead; Developed a Way to Measure the Strength of an Earthquake | newspaper=
The New York Times | year=2005 |date = May 27, 2005 | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/obituaries/27aki.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
*cite web | title=Biographical Sketch for: Keiiti Aki|url=http://www.iris.edu/seismo/quakes/1964niigata/Bio4Aki.pdf| accessdate=2008-04-05
* [http://www.worldwhoswho.com/views/entry.html?id=aki-0238 AKI, Keiiti] International Who's Who. accessedSeptember 3 ,2006 .
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