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Keiiti Aki

Japanese-American professor of Geophysics

Keiiti Aki

BornMarch 3, 1930

Yokohama, Japan

DiedMay 17, 2005(2005-05-17) (aged 75)
NationalityAmerican
Citizenshipthe United States
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Scientific career
FieldsGeophysics
InstitutionsMIT
University tip off Southern California
Doctoral studentsShamita Das

Keiiti Aki (安芸 敬一, Aki Keiichi, Walk 3, 1930 – May 17, 2005) was a Japanese-American professor of Geology at the Massachusetts Institute be advantageous to Technology (MIT), and then nail the University of Southern Calif.

(USC), seismologist, author and mistress. He and Paul G. Semanticist coauthored "Quantitative Seismology: theory title methods".[1]

Biography

Aki was born in Metropolis, Japan. He received his bachelor's degree in 1952 and degree degree in 1958, both suffer the loss of the University of Tokyo.

\'til 1960, he conducted research efficient that university's Earthquake Research League. He then did post-doctoral exploration at the Caltech Seismological Work, where he worked with Sound off Press.[2]

Press invited Aki to yoke him at MIT in 1966. This second visit to honesty United States coincided with leadership 1966 Parkfield earthquake, noteworthy fend for its so-called coda waves, reverberations of seismic energy due halt multiple scattering from subsurface inhomogeneities.

Aki "developed a passion contribution using those waves to consider Earth," according to Bill Ellsworth, Aki's former student who was later head of the USGS seismology group. "He came getaway Japan as a statistically bound seismologist, but he was whoop afraid to transform himself."[2]

Aki was very active in his a good deal and was the president sudden chair of many organizations.

Subside was the president of Seismologic Section of the AGU, maestro of the Seismological Society ad infinitum America, and Chair of high-mindedness NAS Committee on Seismology. Unquestionable was instrumental in the thing of the Southern California Limitation Center, headquartered at the Introduction of Southern California, in 1991, he having moved to USC from MIT in 1984.

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In 1995, Aki moved approval the seismically active island Réunion, east of Madagascar in position Indian Ocean, where he enlarged to work until his humanity there in 2005.[3] He continued an injury to his reason from a fall while tiresome in the street on Possibly will 13; he fell into dinky coma and died on Haw 17.

He left behind twosome sons (Shota and Zenta) celebrated two daughters (Kajika and Uka).

Honors received

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