19.05.1971 (53 years) (London, England, UK)
Paul Gordon Silver (November 30, 1948 – August 7, 2009) was an American seismologist. A member of the research staff at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington since 1982, Paul Silver made a series of important contributions to the investigation of seismic anisotropy and to earthquake research by observing the slow redistribution of stress and strain along fault zones. Paul Silver and his younger daughter Celine died in an automobile accident in North Carolina on August 7, 2009.