Background
Howell, Benjamin Franklin was born on June 12, 1917 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Son of Benjamin Franklin and Claire M. (Mead) Howell.
(Modern seismology is a relatively new science; most curre...)
Modern seismology is a relatively new science; most current ideas originated no earlier than the latter half of the nineteenth century. The focus of this book is on seismological concepts, how they originated and how they form our modern understanding of the science. A history of seismology falls naturally into four periods: a largely mythological period previous to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake; a period of direct observation from then to the development of seismometers in the late 19th century; a period during which study of seismic arrival times were used to outline the structure of the earth's interior extending the 1960s; the modern era in which all aspects of seismic waves are used in combination with trial models and computers to elucidate details of the earthquake process. This history attempts to show how modern ideas grew from simple beginnings. Ideas are rarely new, and their first presentations are often neglected until someone is able to present the evidence for their correctness convincingly. Much care has been used to give the earliest sources of ideas and to reference the basic papers on all aspects of earthquake seismology to help investigators find such references in tracing the roots of their own work.
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Howell, Benjamin Franklin was born on June 12, 1917 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Son of Benjamin Franklin and Claire M. (Mead) Howell.
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, 1939; Master of Science, California Institute Technology, 1942; Ph. D., California Institute Technology, 1949.
Research engineer division war research, University of California at San Diego, 1942-1945; geophysicist, United Geophysical Company, 1946-1949; faculty, Pennsylvania State University, since 1949; professor geophysics, Pennsylvania State University, since 1953; head department geophysics and geochemistry, Pennsylvania State University, 1949-1963; assistant dean, Pennsylvania State University (Graduate School), 1968-1970; associate dean, Pennsylvania State University (Graduate School), 1970-1982; dean emeritus, Pennsylvania State University (Graduate School), since 1982. Chief consultant seismologist Vibratech Engineering Company, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, 1955-1969.
(Modern seismology is a relatively new science; most curre...)
(McGraw-Hill Series In The Geological Sciences.)
Fellow American Geophysical Union (secretary section tectonophysics 1956-1959, section seismology 1959-1963), Geological Society American. Member society Exploration Geophysics, Seismological Society American (president 1963-1964), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Constance M. Benson, June 30, 1943 (deceased). Children: Barbara Carolyn, Catherine Ann (deceased), Bonnie Andrea, James Benjamin.