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    conversion. They are named after their author, the German geophysicist Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, who died before they were published in 1919. The equations are...
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    Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz (22 October 1881 – 20 July 1908) was a German geophysicist who made important contributions to seismology, in particular the formulation...
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    has been understood since the early 20th century when Karl Zoeppritz wrote down the Zoeppritz equations. Due to its physical origin, AVO can also be...
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    between P-waves and S-waves, and is described by the Zoeppritz equations. In 1919, Karl Zoeppritz derived 4 equations that determine the amplitudes of...
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  • physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) 1881 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (d. 1908) 1882 – Edmund Dulac...
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  • Demetrius Vikelas, Greek businessman and author (b. 1835) 1908 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (b. 1881) 1910 – Anderson...
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