Prince Boris Borisovich Golitsyn
(March 2 1862 – May 17 1916 ) was a Russian physicist who invented the first electromagnetic seismograph in 1906. He was one of the founders of modern Seismology. In 1911 he was chosen to be the president of the International Seismology Association.
He was a plenary speaker on the International Congress of mathematicians in Cambridge 1912 He belonged to the Golitsyn family, one of the leading noble houses of Imperial Russia.
Seismograph is the instruments that measure motion of the ground, including those of seismic waves generated by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other seismic sources. Records of seismic waves allow seismologists to map the interior of the Earth, and locate and measure the size of these different sources.
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