Anton M. Dainty (1942-2014)

Autor: Rick Schult, M. Nafi Toksöz, Katharine Kadinsky‐Cade
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Seismological Research Letters. 86:13-14
ISSN: 1938-2057
0895-0695
DOI: 10.1785/0220140217
Popis: Dr. Anton M. Dainty, a seismologist with a broad range of contributions, passed away on 15 August 2014, at his home in Waltham, Massachusetts. He published nearly 100 papers on seismic‐wave propagation, scattering, Earth structure, and lunar seismology and was a major scientific guide for the global field of nuclear monitoring seismology from 1996 to 2010. He had the distinction of making major contributions to both terrestrial and lunar seismology. Anton M. Dainty (1942–2014) Anton was born on 26 December 1942 in the United Kingdom and did his undergraduate studies in physics at the University of Edinburgh. His Ph.D. in marine geophysics at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, was on crustal studies in eastern Canada. After a four‐year stay in the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto studying generalized ray theory and the theory of leaking modes, he joined the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1971 to work with a team of seismologists on the analysis of Apollo lunar seismic data. Working with the first seismic data from an extraterrestrial body was an exciting challenge. Lunar seismograms looked nothing like terrestrial seismograms; lunar seismograms were of long duration, lasting more than one hour and showed no resemblance to the features of terrestrial seismograms, in which different phases ( P , …
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