Norman Abraham Haskell (1905-1970), was an American

geophysicist Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term ''geophysics'' so ...

Starting his graduate work on measuring the viscosity of the mantle, Haskell made major contributions to geophysics over a career that lasted nearly 40 years. Other of his contributions included the formulation of a matrix method for propagating waves in a layered medium and development of the simple mathematical description of earthquake sources that allows their durations to be studied using seismic waves. He also used

seismology Seismology (; from Ancient Greek σεισμός (''seismós'') meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (''-logía'') meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other ...

to monitor nuclear testing.Thomson, K.C., Memorial: Norman A. Haskell (1905-1970) ''Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America'', 61, pp. 221-223 (1971)

Family

He and his wife, Rose, had a son,

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(1934-2010), who became an actor.

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1905 births 1970 deaths American geophysicists American seismologists Scientists from Boston {{US-physicist-stub