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Frank Press

Frank Press

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
53
Citations
8835
World Ranking
2922
National Ranking
1200

Overview

Frank Press was affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their professional record includes contributions to academic research and science during their career at this institution.

No records of recent papers, frequent co-authors, or frequent publication venues are available for Frank Press. Similarly, there is no data listing their main fields or subfields of study, nor is there information about specific topics of work or book publications.

No awards have been documented for Frank Press, and it is noted that the scientist is deceased.

Best Publications

  • Elastic Waves in Layered Media

    W. Maurice Ewing;Wenceslas S. Jardetzky;Frank Press

  • Displacements, strains, and tilts at teleseismic distances

    Frank Press

  • Earth models obtained by Monte Carlo inversion.

    Frank Press

  • Two slow surface waves across North America

    Frank Press;Maurice Ewing

  • Passive Seismic Experiment

    Gary V. Latham;Maurice Ewing;Frank Press;George Sutton

  • Excitation of the free oscillations of the Earth by earthquakes

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  • Propagation of acoustic-gravity waves in the atmosphere

    Frank Press;David Harkrider

  • How thick is the lithosphere

    H. Kanamori;Frank Press

  • Pattern recognition applied to earthquake epicenters in California

    I.M. Gelfand;Sh.A. Guberman;V.I. Keilis-Borok;L. Knopoff

  • Geophysical tests of petrological models of the spreading lithosphere

    Don W. Forsyth;Frank Press

  • Earth models consistent with geophysical data

    Unknown

  • The Krakatoa Air—Sea Waves: An Example of Pulse Propagation in Coupled Systems

    Unknown

  • Seismic Data from Man-Made Impacts on the Moon

    G. Latham;M. Ewing;J. Dorman;F. Press

  • DETERMINATION OF CRUSTAL STRUCTURE FROM PHASE VELOCITY OF RAYLEIGH WAVES PART I: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

    Frank Press

  • Regionalized earth models

    Frank Press

  • Patterns of seismic release in the southern California region

    Frank Press;Clarence Allen

  • An investigation of mantle Rayleigh waves

    Maurice Ewing;Frank Press

  • TWO‐DIMENSIONAL MODEL SEISMOLOGY

    Jack Ertle Oliver;Frank Press;William Maurice Ewing

  • Experimental determination of earthquake fault length and rupture velocity

    Frank Press;Ari Ben-Menahem;M. Nafi Toksöz

  • Propagation of elastic waves in a floating ice sheet

    Frank Press;Maurice Ewing

  • Crustal Structure and Surface-Wave Dispersion. Part IV: Atlantic and Pacific Ocean Basins

    Jack E Oliver;Maurice Ewing;Frank Press

  • DETERMINATION OF CRUSTAL STRUCTURE FROM PHASE VELOCITY OF RAYLEIGH WAVES: PART III: THE UNITED STATES

    Maurice Ewing;Frank Press

  • Sn velocities and the composition of the lithosphere in the regionalized Atlantic

    Robert S. Hart;Frank Press

  • Structure of the earth's crust.

    Maurice Ewing;Frank Press

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurice Ewing
Maurice Ewing Columbia University
Yosio Nakamura
Yosio Nakamura The University of Texas at Austin
George H. Sutton
George H. Sutton University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jack Oliver
Jack Oliver Cornell University
Gary V. Latham
Gary V. Latham Columbia University
Don L. Anderson
Don L. Anderson California Institute of Technology
Clarence R. Allen
Clarence R. Allen California Institute of Technology
Leon Knopoff
Leon Knopoff University of California, Los Angeles
Henry Stommel
Henry Stommel Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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