Paul G. Richards
Paul G. Richards | |
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| Born | March 1943 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (B.A.) California Institute of Technology (M.S., Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Theory of seismic wave propagation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Seismology Geology Geophysics |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
Paul G. Richards (born March 1943) is an English-born, American seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to the theory of seismic wave propagation and in methods to understand how the recorded shapes of seismic waves are affected by processes of diffraction, attenuation and scattering. He is the Mellon Professor of the Natural Sciences at Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.