Andrija Mohorovičić

Andrija Mohorovičić
Portrait of Andrija Mohorovičić
Born23 January 1857
Opatija, Austrian Littoral, Austrian Empire
Died18 December 1936(1936-12-18) (aged 79)
Zagreb, Sava Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Known forEponym for the Mohorovičić discontinuity

Andrija Mohorovičić (23 January 1857 – 18 December 1936) was a Croatian geophysicist. He is best known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and is considered one of the founders of modern seismology.

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