Bolt, Bruce A.

Bolt, Bruce A. (Alan)

(1930–  ) seismologist; born in Largs, Australia. Director of the seismographic station of the University of California: Berkeley since his immigration in 1963, he related elastic wave dynamics to earthquakes and nuclear explosions.

The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.