Prince Boris Borisovich Golitsyn ( – ) was a prominent

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who invented the first

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seismograph in 1906. He was one of the founders of modern Seismology. In 1911 he was chosen to be the president of the International Seismology Association. He was a plenary speaker on the International Congress of mathematicians in Cambridge 1912, and in 1916 was elected as member of the

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. He belonged to the

Golitsyn family The House of Golitsyn or Galitzine was one of the largest princely of the noble houses in the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire. Among them were boyars, warlords, diplomats, generals (the Mikhailovichs), stewards, chamberlains, the richest ...

, one of the leading noble houses of

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The Academic Krilov about Galitzine

scientific academic ship Galitzine
{{DEFAULTSORT:Golitsyn, Boris Borisovich 1862 births 1916 deaths Physicists from the Russian Empire Russian geophysicists Russian seismologists Boris Borisovich Inventors from the Russian Empire Foreign Members of the Royal Society Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Burials at Nikolskoe Cemetery Privy Councillor (Russian Empire) Russian princes