Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,853 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,853 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is the grave of Charles Richter. Born in 1900 in Overpeck, Ohio, Richter mostly grew up in Los Angeles after his mom moved there in 1909. His father left the family when he was an infant. He was a very smart kid and ended up at Stanford. He graduated from there in 1920 and started a PhD at Cal Tech. But before he finished the dissertation, he was offered a position at the Carnegie Institution in Washington. It was common at this time for co…