James B. Macelwane
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James B. Macelwane, S.J. was a Jesuit Catholic priest and pioneering American seismologist. Biography Father Macelwane was the second of nine children born to Alexander Macelwane, a fisherman and farmer, and Catherine Agnes Carr.
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- Theoretical and Applied Seismology by Akitune Imamura (Tokyo: Maruzen and Company, 1937), 358 pp. (1938) (54)
- Introduction to Theoretical Seismology (1933) (36)
- A study of the relation between the periods of elastic waves and the distance traveled by them, based upon the seismographic records of the California earthquake, January 31, 1922 (1923) (17)
- PROBLEMS AND PROGRESS ON THE GEOLOGICO-SEISMOLOGICAL FRONTIER. (1936) (14)
- The South Pacific Earthquake of June 26, 1924 (1931) (12)
- Introduction to Theoretical Seismology@@@Introduction to Theoretical Seismology Part II. Seismometry (1932) (9)
- The Jesuit seismographic stations in the United States and Canada—A retrospect (1926) (5)
- On Near Earthquakes in the Vicinity of New Zealandby K. E. Bullen (Dominion Observatory Bulletin no. 113, Wellington, W.I., New Zealand, extracted from New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. XVIII, 1936, pp. 493-507) (1937) (5)
- The electromagnetic microbarograph and its performance (1938) (4)
- Roots of mountains or roots of continents (1937) (4)
- Are important earthquakes ever caused by impact (1926) (4)
- The Mississippi Valley earthquake problem (1930) (3)
- The Crystal Springs, California, earthquake of February 10, 1925 (1927) (2)
- Earthquake surface‐waves (2)
- Interior of the Earth (1924) (2)
- The Calaveras Valley, California, earthquake of April 3, 1924 (1927) (2)
- The problem of microseisms and ocean storms (1946) (2)
- Origin of Microseisms. (1946) (2)
- THE JESUIT FOURTH VOW. (1932) (1)
- An Introduction to the Seismograph for the Amateur (1937) (1)
- Our present knowledge concerning the interior of the earth (1931) (1)
- A preliminary table of observed travel times of earthquake waves for distances between 10⁰ and 180⁰ applicable only to normal earthquakes (1933) (1)
- The Sprengnether Vertical Seismograph (1941) (1)
- Study of large-scale vibrations at a pumping station (1947) (1)
- Padre Luis Rodés, S.J., 1881–1939 (1940) (1)
- Tectonophysics or the Physics of Earth Deformation (1943) (1)
- The Corralitos earthquake September 19, 1923 (1923) (1)
- Progress report of the Jesuit Seismological Association for the year 1947 (1949) (1)
- A seismograph for microseisms (1938) (1)
- Seismicity of the Earth and Associated Phenomena. B. Gutenberg , C. F. Richter (1951) (1)
- The Rev. William Charles Repetti, S.J. (1944) (1)
- Report of the Jesuit Seismological Association for 1933 (1934) (1)
- Modern trends in seismological research (1936) (1)
- Introduction to Theoretical Seismology@@@Introduction to Theoretical Seismology Part I. Geodynamics (1937) (1)
- Report of the president of the Seismological Society of America for the year 1928-1929 (1929) (0)
- Report of special committee on geophysical and geological study of continents (1935) (0)
- Progress report of the Jesuit Seismological Association (1949) (0)
- Deep‐focus earthquakes and their implications (1937) (0)
- Report of special committee on geophysical and geological study of oceanic basins (1935) (0)
- Some seismographic problems and our present knowledge (1929) (0)
- The Lisbon Meeting (1933) (0)
- SOME SEISMOLOGICAL EVIDENCE THAT IS NOT EVIDENT. (0)
- Place of the Association in a Catholic University (1940) (0)
- The Department of Meteorology at the University of Chicago (1952) (0)
- GEOPHYSICAL EDUCATION IN A DEPARTMENT OF GEOPHYSICS (1940) (0)
- Dynamic Seismology@@@Introduction to Theoretical Seismology, Part I, Geodynamics (1938) (0)
- Seismicity of Mississippi Valley: ABSTRACT (1948) (0)
- Grover, Missouri, Earthquake November 16, 1933 (1933) (0)
- On: “THE RELATIVE PLACE OF EMPIRICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS OF GEOPHYSICAL INTERPRETATION” (1942) (0)
- Practical Application of Microseisms to Forecasting (1951) (0)
- Seismology and the first hundred kilometers of the Earth (1940) (0)
- Progress report of the Jesuit Seismological Association for the Years 1945 and 1946 (1947) (0)
- Two Hundred Years of Earthquake Study (1954) (0)
- Progress-report of the Jesuit Seismological Association for 1944 (1945) (0)
- Earthquakes: by Nicholas Hunter Heck (Princeton University Press, 1936; xi +22 pp. 88 figs.) (1936) (0)
- The Jesuit Fourth Vow (1932) (0)
- Progress‐report of the Jesuit Seismological Association for the years 1941, 1942, and 1943 (1944) (0)
- The Macelwane‐Sprengnether magnetometer (1948) (0)
- Recent seismic activity in central California (abstract with discussion by Warren D. Smith) (1925) (0)
- American Jesuits in Science (1941) (0)
- The Structure of the Interior of the Earth (1948) (0)
- The Sprengnether student magnetometer (1939) (0)
- Jesuit Seismological Association for 1939 (1940) (0)
- Report of the Jesuit Seismological Association for 1949 (1951) (0)
- Personalities in Science (1941) (0)
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