Selected images of Leon Knopoff, colleagues, and friends
Photos selected and scanned by Jo Knopoff
If you are pictured or named in a photo but would prefer not to be, please let us know.
Atop the "Cosmic Ray Truck" while a grad student at Caltech, 1947
In the lab, 1951-52
In the lab, 1952-53
Leon, early 1950s
With oil company executives, Denver, 1955,
Leon Knopoff on right, then Prof. Louis Slichter
Clarence Allen, Leon Knopoff, Barclay Kamb, Ron Shreve,
Austerdalsbreen glacier, Norway, July 1960
Expedition to the Dead Sea, January 1961, with John Belshe at left
At Japan-US meeting on earthquake prediction, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo, March 1964
Leon Knopoff, George Sutton, Jack Oliver photo by Ikuo Karakama
At Japan-US meeting on earthquake prediction, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo, March 1964
Hugo Benioff 2nd from left, Don Tocher, Leon Knopoff, George Sutton photo by Ikuo Karakama
At Japan-US meeting on earthquake prediction, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo, March 1964 front row: Kato, Steinhart, Tocher, Oliver, Benioff, Hanson, Sutton, Dix, Knopoff, Tsuboi, Wadati, Oetjen (?)
Leon at Nokogiri-yama Observatory of Geodesy, March 1964 photo by Ikuo Karakama
At Nokogiri-yama Observatory of Geodesy, March 1964, Leon Knopoff at right, Jack Oliver at left, George Sutton 2nd from right photo by Ikuo Karakama
At Shinto shrine at the base of Mt. Tsukuba, whose twin peaks (male and female) are believed to bestow marital bliss, March 1964 photo by Ikuo Karakama
With Hugo Benioff at Tsukuba Shrine, March 1964 photo by Ikuo Karakama
At Tsukuba Seismological Observatory, March 1964 photo by Ikuo Karakama
Leon, May 1965
Rehovoth Conference, June 1965 front row: Slichter, Press, Jeffreys, Knopoff, Keilis-Borok, Anderson, Gilbert
With Mike Shimshoni, Rehovoth Conference, June 1965
Leon Knopoff receives a Canadian medal, Ottowa, Sept. 1965
Leon Knopoff, John Gardner, Bob Burridge, Ajit Mal, July 1965
With Dr. E. M. Fournier d'Albe of UNESCO on Mt. Asama, Japan, August 1966
At head table, European Seismological Commission meeting, Copenhagen, August 1966
Leon Knopoff at left, Jo Knopoff third to right of speaker
In his office, March 1966
Leon Knopoff in his office, Pembroke Hart at right, July 1967
Leon Knopoff with Dr. Inge Lehmannn, Trieste, September 1967
Near Kearsarge Pass, Sierra Nevada, 1968 photo by Alan Leeds
Backpacking in the Sierra Nevada, 1968, John Schlue, Volodya Keilis-Borok, Leon Knopoff photo by Alan Leeds
Venice gondola ride, Jo, Michael, Volodya Keilis-Borok, Katie, Leon, Zhora Molchan, September 1970
At a meeting in Banff, August 1972, Leon and Jo in center next to Bertha, Lady Jeffreys; others: Jane Flynn, Mike Shimshoni, Sir Harold Jeffreys, Ted Flynn
At a meeting in Garm, Tajikistan, October 1973
Armando Cisternas and Leon Knopoff, January 1976
Leon playing four-hand piano music with Bill Hutchinson, July 1978
At inauguration of Caltech president, with Jo, October 1978
Leon Knopoff, Minister Fong Yi, Prof. A. Gansser-Biaggi, Deng Xiaoping, at reception for Tibet study delegation, Beijing, June 1980
Minister Fong Yi, Leon Knopoff, Beijing, June 1980
Leon Knopoff scoring in a much-reported basketball game between the delegation of western scientists and a Chinese team, China, June 1980
In Tibet with a study delegation, June 1980
Tibet, June 1980
Tibet, June 1980
Tibet, June 1980
Gold Medal of Royal Astronomical Society presented to Leon Knopoff by M. Seaton, RAS President, London, September 5, 1980
Gold Medal of Royal Astronomical Society presented to Leon Knopoff by M. Seaton, RAS President, London, September 5, 1980
With RAS Gold Medal he just received, September 5, 1980
Leon Knopoff and family with RAS President M. Seaton and (seated) Sir Harold Jeffreys, September 5, 1980
Michael, Leon, Xu Guoming, Rachel, Chen Yun-tai, Los Angeles, January 1982
In the lab, November 1983
Atop Huang Shan (Yellow Mountain), China, Xu Guoming at left, July 1985
Leon Knopoff and Xu Guoming, Hefei, China, July 1985
Talking with students, Hefei, China, July 1985
With Professor Fu, China, July 1985
Banquet with Prof. and Mrs. Chen Yun-tai, Beijing, July 1985
Leon, John Liebman, Teruo Yamashita, backpacking in the Sierras, September 1985
At Harvard, with Evelyn Teng, Jo, Rachel, Frances Teng, Leon Teng, June 1986
Leon climbing with Walter Zürn, above Chamonix, France, September 1988
Leon Knopoff, Andrei Sakharov, Vladek Pisarenko, Leningrad, October 1988, at a joint meeting of US and Soviet Academies of Sciences, organized for the US by Leon Knopoff and for the USSR by Volodya Keilis-Borok
L. Knopoff, Y. Kagan, V. Keilis-Borok, A. Sakharov, G. Barenblatt, V. Pisarenko, D. Campbell, Academy of Sciences Building, Leningrad, October 1988
Arriving for a session, joint meeting of US and Soviet National Academies of Sciences, Academy of Sciences Building, Leningrad, October 1988
Leon, Gary and Charlotte Ernst, Jo, IGPP party, about 1988
In the rain, Jo and Leon with Paul Davis, backpacking in the Sierras, July 1989
In Turkey, August 1989 photo by Leon Teng
Leon and Volodya Keilis-Borok, Istanbul, August 1989
With Teruo Yamashita at a party given by the Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo, October 1989
With Bertha, Lady Jeffreys, at LAX, April 1989
Leon Knopoff receives a medal from the Seismological Society of America, May 1990, taken with men who got their PhDs under him: Edo Nyland, Larry Porter, Tony Gangi, Alan Leeds, Niren Biswas, Doug Garbin
65th birthday celebration, July 1, 1990, with Jerry Wasserburg
After a hike, with Walter Zürn, Austria, August 1991
Atop Rastkogel, with Walter Zürn, August 1991
Conferring with Adrian de Hoop, Delft, June 1992
Lunch with Bertha, Lady Jeffreys, and Nancy Lapwood (widows of Leon's Cambridge colleagues Sir Harold Jeffreys and Ralph Lapwood), Newmarket, England, August 1992
Professor Sir Alan Cook and Leon, August 1992, at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where Leon was a fellow
Walter Zürn and Leon above Chamonix Valley, France, September 1993
Leon with Bill Kaula, National Academy of Sciences meeting, Washington, DC, April 1994
Leon's retirement party, Physics Department, December 1994
Leon and Jo at Physics Department retirement party, December 1994
Lecturing at Colloquium on Earthquake Prediction, National Academy of Sciences, Irvine, CA, February 1995
With Katie at Selwyn College, Cambridge, September 1995, under portrait of Sir Alan Cook
With Rita and Giuliano Panza, Trieste, May 1996
With Zhongliang Wu, Beihai Park, Beijing, September 1996
Lecturing on Non-Linear Dynamics of Seismicity, China, September 1996
Participants in Workshop on Non-Linear Dynamics of Seismicity, Hangzhou, China, September 7-9, 1996 Leon 5th from left, front row
At a dinner after lecturing at the Seismological Training Center, Hangzhou, September 1996, with Professor Chen Yuntai on right
Climbing a tower near the Yangtze, September 1996
Jo and Leon, National Academy of Sciences dinner dance, Washington, DC, April 1998
Alaska, July 1999 standing at left: Niren Biswas, Leon Knopoff, Kei Aki
Preparing a lecture, Glacier Bay Lodge, Alaska, July 1999
Leon and Jo at National Academy of Sciences President's Dinner, Washington, DC, May 2000
With Zhongliang Wu and family, Sherman Oaks, May 2000
Leon and Jo at a UCLA reception honoring them, May 2000
Poster for symposium honoring Leon's 75th birthday and 50th year at UCLA
The 75/50 symposium for Leon to mark his 75th birthday and 50 years at UCLA, Leon surrounded by his PhDs and postdocs, September 2000
With Tony Gangi, one of the 75/50 organizers, September 2000
With Gerald Schubert, 75/50 celebration, September 2000, David Scholler looking on
At 75/50 celebration, September 2000
Greeting Frank Press after his tribute, 75/50 celebration, September 2000
75/50 celebration, September 2000, Leon gets a hug from Volodya Keilis-Borok looking on: Frank Press, Devra and Lester Breslow
At 75/50 celebration, September 2000
With Jo at 75/50 celebration, September 2000
Response to tributes, 75/50 celebration, September 2000, Katie looking on
With the gift of a framed "Q" (shortest ever title of a paper), 75/50 celebration, September 2000
A standing ovation for Leon, 75/50 celebration, September 2000
Leon receives presentation copy of Knopoff Festschrift issue (Geophysical Journal International) from Royal Astronomical Society (publisher of the Journal), San Francisco, December 2000
Photo in Knopoff Festschrift, 2000
Working on transparencies for lecture, Tokyo, October 2000
Meeting in Minneapolis, October 2001: A. Levshin, A. Gabrielov, V. Keilis-Borok, L. Knopoff, G. Molchan, V. Kossobokov, for Keilis-Borok's 80th birthday
With Prof. Andrei Gabrielov at Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, October 2001
At IMA meeting, Minneapolis, October 2001 photo by Andrei Gabrielov
With Prof. Volodya Keilis-Borok, IMA meeting, Minneapolis, October 2001 photo by Andrei Gabrielov
Lecturing at IMA meeting, Minneapolis, October 2001 photo by Andrei Gabrielov
With Volodya Keilis-Borok, November 2001
With Armando and Delia Cisternas, Strasbourg, May 2002
With Margy Kivelson, Paris, October 2003
With Doris Müller (Mrs. Stefan Müller), Zürich, October 2003
Lecturing at International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, October 2003: Models of Earthquakes as a Self-organizing Process photo by Volodya Kossobokov
About to receive Docteur Honoris Causa degree, l'Université Louis-Pasteur, Strasbourg, June 2004
Speech after receiving honorary degree, Strasbourg, June 2004
Docteur Honoris Causa in full regalia, Strasbourg, June 2004
Docteur Honoris Causa with proud family, Strasbourg, June 2004
Jo and Leon, Docteur Honoris Causa degree, l'Université Louis-Pasteur, Strasbourg, June 2004
Lecturing on California earthquake prediction, Strasbourg, June 2004
Leon meeting Hui Liangyu, Vice Premier of China, before 3rd International Conference on Continental Earthquakes, Beijing, July 2004
Leon being made the first Honorary Professor of the Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, July 2004
Expressing thanks for Honorary Professorship of the Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, July 2004
Professor Zhongliang Wu, first Honorary Professor Leon Knopoff, Professor Chen Yuntai, Beijing, July 2004
Lecturing at 3rd International Conference on Continental Earthquakes, Beijing, July 2004
At conference on earthquakes, Beijing, July 2004
At conference on earthquakes, Beijing, July 2004, where Leon was awarded an honorary professorship
With Professor Chen Yuntai, UCLA Faculty Center, September 2007
With Jean Elkhoury, Leon's last PhD student, after hooding ceremony, June 2008
At a Royal Society soirée, London, with Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society, Leon's 84th birthday, July 1, 2009
L E O N K N O P O F F ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
