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Leon Knopoff (July 1, 1925 – January 20, 2011) was a geophysicist and musicologist. He received his education at Caltech, graduating in 1949 with a PhD in physics, and came to UCLA the following year. He served on the UCLA faculty for 60 years. His research interests spanned a wide variety of fields and included the physics and statistics of earthquakes, earthquake prediction, the interior structure of the Earth, plate tectonics, pattern recognition, non-linear earthquake dynamics and several other areas of solid Earth geophysics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary: Leon Knopoff, 85, internationally distinguished UCLA scientist )〕 He also made contributions to the fields of musical perception and archaeology. ==Honors and Awards== * Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 1962. * Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 1963.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Academy of Sciences Member Directory )〕 * Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1964.〔 * Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1965.〔 * Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, 1976.〔 * Recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1979. * Medal of the Seismological Society of America, 1990.〔 * Member of the American Philosophical Society, 1992.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leon Knopoff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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