GEOLOGIST

Hiroo Kanamori

1936 - Today

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Hiroo Kanamori (金森 博雄, Kanamori Hiroo; born October 17, 1936) is a Japanese seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of earthquakes and the tectonic processes that cause them. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hiroo Kanamori is the 44th most popular geologist (down from 38th in 2019). (down from 3,196th in 2019)

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Hiroo Kanamori ranks 44 out of 90. Before him are Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Édouard Lartet, Barnum Brown, Adolphe d'Archiac, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, and Joachim Barrande. After him are Lawrence Lambe, Alfred Lacroix, Henryk Arctowski, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Niles Eldredge, and Marcel Alexandre Bertrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Hiroo Kanamori ranks 304. Before him are Alex Rocco, Isacio Calleja, K Callan, Renato Corti, Mustafa Ould Salek, and Ashley Cooper. After him are Joe E. Tata, Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Yuri Ilyenko, Gábor Szabó, Betty Curtis, and Peter Swan.

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