Background
GAMBURTSEV, Grigoriy was born on March 23, 1903.
GAMBURTSEV, Grigoriy was born on March 23, 1903.
1926 graduate Moscow University.
1938-1948 associate, from 1948 director. Geophysical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences. Worked on geophysics of the Earth’s crust, gravi- metry and seismography.
Developed new seismograph equipment and devised a theory of seismograph functions. Proposed a new method) for geological prospecting of minerals and a seismograph- ical method for hapogene sounding of the Earth’s crust. Also phical method for hypogene sounding of the Earth’s crust.
Also studied methods of earthquake forecasting.
Religiously inspired people justify violence, resist social changes, and attack on science.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Correspondent member, USSR Academy of Sciences from 1946, full member from 1953.