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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/igeof.2954436xe.2016.55.4.213

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Cinna Lomnitz (1925-2016) biography seismology

Xyoli Pérez-Campos

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geofísica, Departamento de Sismología, Ciudad Universitaria, Delegación Coyoacán, 04510, Mexico City, México

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8970-7966

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Cinna Lomnitz was born in Cologne, Germany on May 4, 1925. He studied Engineering at the Universidad de Chile and went to Harvard for his masters in Soil Mechanics. He then moved to California, to be a Ph.D. student of Hugo Benioff at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He graduated on 1955; his thesis title was "Creep measurements in igneous rocks with some applications to aftershock theory". Part of his thesis was the Lomnitz law and an analytic expression for the quality factor, Q, for linear viscoelastic polycrystal materials. After graduation, he decided to stay at Caltech for another couple of years as postdoctoral fellow of Charles Richter.

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Pérez-Campos, X. (2016). Dr. Cinna Lomnitz Aronsfrau. Geofisica Internacional, 55(4). https://doi.org/10.22201/igeof.2954436xe.2016.55.4.213

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Vol. 55 No. 4 (2016): October 1, 2016

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