Charles Francis Richter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Francis Richter

Seismologist and mathematician

Date of Birth: 26-Apr-1900

Place of Birth: Overpeck, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 30-Sep-1985

Profession: geologist, seismologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Charles Francis Richter (); April 26, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an American seismologist and physicist. Richter is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes.
Inspired by Kiyoo Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, Richter first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg; both worked at the California Institute of Technology. The quote "logarithmic plots are a device of the devil" is attributed to Richter.