Leon Knopoff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leon Knopoff

American geophysicist and musicologist

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1925

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Death: 20-Jan-2011

Profession: physicist, university teacher, seismologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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.
He also made contributions to the fields of musical perception and archaeology.