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Nature 445, 599 (8 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445599a; Published online 7 February 2007

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A man of magnitude

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Charles Richter developed the scale for measuring earthquakes.

BOOK REVIEWEDRichter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man

by Susan Elizabeth Hough

Princeton University Press: 2007. 336 pp. $27.95, £17.95

The cover of Richter's Scale by Susan Hough features an early photograph of Charles Richter looking like a grown-up Harry Potter. Like much of the rest of this biography, it reveals an unfamiliar side of the scientist famous for developing the first magnitude scale for earthquakes in 1935.

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Charles F. Richter (1900?1985)

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