CHRONOLOGY
1943
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Born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England
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1965
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B.A. (Mathematics), University of Cambridge
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1966
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M.S. (Geology) California Institute of Technology
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1970
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Ph.D. (Geophysics), California Institute of Technology
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1981 -- 1986
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Five-year MacArthur Fellowship
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1984 -- 1985
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Foster Fellow, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
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1987 -- 2008
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Mellon Prof. of Nat. Sciences, Columbia Univ.
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1989 -- 1990
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Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (on
sabbatical)
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1992 -- 1994
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President/Seismology, American Geophysical Union
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1993 -- 1994
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Foster Fellow, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
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2000 -- 2001
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Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
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2008 – present
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Retired from full-time professorship, but continues
part-time teaching and research at Lamont/Columbia
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (since 1985)
Member
of review panels for Air Force Technical Applications Center (1984 -- present),
Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (1985 -- 86), Air Force Office of
Scientific Research (1986), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (1989).
Member, US CD delegation June 1994 in Geneva - presented Expert's Paper on
Problems for CTBT monitoring posed by chemical explosions
Member, NAS/NRC Panels advising the U.S. Departments of State, Defense, and
Energy on technical issues related to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban
Treaty, 1995 -- 1997. Also 2000 -- 2003, and 2009 -- 2011.
Board
of Directors, Seismological Society of America, 2002 -- 2005.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Seismological Society of America
- Society of Exploration Geophysicists
- Royal Astronomical Society
- American Geophysical Union (Fellow since 1977)
- Arms Control Association
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
(Fellow since 1993)
- Council on Foreign Relations
- International Society of Explosives Engineers
- Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences (2008)
- Harry Fielding Reid Medalist of the Seismological
Society of America (awarded in 2010)
PUBLICATIONS
(subset
of more than 100 total publications --- go to curriculum
vitae (long) for a more complete list and to download copies of papers
since about 2000)
- Keiiti Aki & Paul G. Richards, Quantitative Seismology: Theory and Methods,
advanced text in two volumes, W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco,
California, February 1980. Russian edition, 1983. Chinese edition, 1986.
Revised American edition, published in one volume by a new publisher,
University Science Books, in 2002. Japanese edition, July 2002.
- Steven Taylor, Howard Patton, & Paul G. Richards,
editors, Explosion Source
Phenomenology, 268 pages, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC,
December 1991.
- Song, Xiaodong, and Paul G. Richards, Seismological
evidence for differential rotation of the Earth's inner core, Nature, 382, 221-224, July 18 1996.
- Richards, Paul G., and Won-Young Kim, Testing the
nuclear test-ban treaty, Nature,
389, 781-782, October 23 1997.
- Khalturin, Vitaly I., Tatyana G. Rautian, and Paul G.
Richards, The seismic signal strength of chemical explosions, Bulletin of the Seismological Society
of America, 88, 1511-1524,
1998.
- Barker, Brian, and 18 co-authors including Paul G.
Richards, Seismology: Monitoring Nuclear Tests, Science, 281, #
5385, pages 1967-1968, issue of 25 Sept 1998.
- Richards, Paul G., Earth's Inner Core -- Discoveries
and Conjectures, Astronomy &
Geophysics, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, February 2000.
- Khalturin, Vitaly I., Tatyana G. Rautian, and Paul G.
Richards, A study of small magnitude seismic events during 1961 -- 1989
near and on the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazkhstan, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 158, 143--171, 2001.
- Richards, Paul G., Seismological Methods of
Monitoring Compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty,
Chapter 25 (pp 369--383) of the International
Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, edited by W.H.K.
Lee, H. Kanamori, and P. Jennings on behalf of the International
Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior, Academic
Press, 2002.
- Jian Zhang, Xiaodong Song, Yingchun Li, Paul G.
Richards, Xinlei Sun, and Felix Waldhauser, Inner core differential motion
confirmed by earthquake waveform doublets, Science, 309,
1357--1360, 26 August 2005.
- David P. Schaff and Paul G. Richards, On finding and
using repeating seismic events in and near China, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, vol. 116 (20
pages), B03309, doi:10.1029/2010JB007895, 2011.