Jesús Emilio Ramírez Explained

Jesús Emilio Ramírez González
Birth Date:1904
Birth Place:Yolombó, Antioquia, Colombia
Death Date:1981
Nationality:Colombian
Fields:Geophysics, Seismology
Workplaces:Geophysical Institute of the Colombian Andes
Alma Mater:Saint Louis University
Doctoral Advisor:James B. Macelwane
Known For:Development of seismograph system for tracking Pacific Ocean storms

Jesús Emilio Ramírez González (1904–1981[1]) was a Colombian geophysicist and seismologist.[2] Born in Yolombó, Antioquia, he earned a M.S. (1931) and PhD (1939) at Saint Louis University under James B. Macelwane. In the late 1930, he and Macelwane invented a system with that was able to track storms out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean using seismographs. He was able to show that "microseisms were traveling, rather than standing waves and that their origins could be traced to storms at sea".[3] With Spanish meteorologist Simón Sarasola he co-founded the Geophysical Institute of the Colombian Andes and was its director for 38 years. He was a president of the Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas and the Centro Regional de Sismologia de America del Sur (CERESIS)[2] The Jesús Emilio Ramírez González Planetarium of Medellín is named for him.[4]

Notes and References

  1. 1982. necrology. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. en. 63. 2. 215–217. 10.1175/1520-0477-63.2.215. 0003-0007. free.
  2. Book: Udias, Agustin . Searching the Heavens and the Earth: The History of Jesuit Observatories. 2013. Kluwer Academic. Dordrecht, Netherlands. 978-94-017-0349-9.
  3. Web site: James B. Macelwane (1883–1956). American Geophysical Union.
  4. Web site: Historia. planetariomedellin.org. Planetario de Medellín Jesús Emilio Ramírez González. 1 April 2016. es. https://web.archive.org/web/20160328095455/http://www.planetariomedellin.org/quienes-somos/historia/. 2016-03-28. dead.