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Herbert Harold Read
FRS
Born(1889-12-17)December 17, 1889
DiedMarch 29, 1970(1970-03-29) (aged 80)
Alma materUniversity of London
SpouseEdith Browning
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society (1939)
Wollaston Medal (1952)
Royal Medal (1963)
Penrose Medal (1967)
Scientific career
FieldsGeology
InstitutionsBritish Geological Survey
University of Liverpool
Imperial College, London
Doctoral studentsJanet Vida Watson
John Sutton
Derek Flinn

Herbert Harold Read FRS,[1] FRSE, FGS, (17 December 1889, in Whitstable – 29 March 1970)[2][3] was a British geologist and Professor of Geology at Imperial College.[2] From 1947-1948 he was president of the Geological Society.[2]

Life[edit]

He was born at WhitstableinKent on 17 December 1889 the son of Herbert Read, a dairy farmer, and his wife, Caroline Mary Kearn. He attended St Alphege Church School in Whitstable then Simon Langton Grammar School for BoysinCanterbury. He then studied Sciences at the University of London, graduating BSc in 1911.

In the First World War he served in the Royal Fusiliers seeing active service on the Somme and at Gallipoli. He was invalided out of service in 1917 and returned to HM Geological Survey (Scottish section), where he had begun briefly in 1914. He stayed with the survey until 1931.[4]

In 1927 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Horne, Sir John Smith Flett, Murray Macgregor and Sir Edward Battersby Bailey. From 1931 to 1939 he was Professor of Geology at Liverpool University.[5]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1939[2] and won its Royal Medal in 1963 for "outstanding contributions to the understanding of the processes of rock metamorphism and the origins of granite".[2][6] He also was awarded the Bigsby Medal in 1935, the Wollaston Medal in 1952 and the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America in 1967.[2] He served as Dean of the Royal School of Mines from 1943-45.[7]

He was Chairman of the Scientific Committee and member of the Committee of Management of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955–58. The Read Mountains in the Shackleton Range of Antarctica are named after him.[8]

He died on 29 March 1970. In 1917 he had married Edith Browning.

Publications[edit]

Quotes[edit]

"The best geologist is he who has seen the most rocks." (H. H. Read, 1940)[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Sutton, J. (1970). "Herbert Harold Read. 1889-1970". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 16: 479–497. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1970.0020.
  • ^ a b c d e f "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35696. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  • ^ ‘READ, Herbert Harold’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 1 March 2009
  • ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
  • ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
  • ^ "Royal archive winners 1989 - 1950". Awards, medals and prize lectures. Royal Society. Retrieved 28 February 2009.
  • ^ Hannah, Gay. History Of Imperial College London, 1907-2007. p. 752.
  • ^ Alberts, Fred G., ed. (1995), Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF) (2 ed.), United States Board on Geographic Names, p. 607, retrieved 3 December 2023 Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Board on Geographic Names.
  • ^ Young, Davis A. (2003). Mind over magma: the story of igneous petrology. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. p. 50. ISBN 0-691-10279-1.
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