Herbert Harold Read

Herbert Harold Read ( * December 17 1889 in Whitstable, † March 29, 1970 ) was a British geologist. He was professor of geology at Imperial College.

In 1960 he was awarded the Gustav- Steinmann Medal, in recognition of his contributions to the study of the basement and granites ( eulogy ).

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1939) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Geological Society of London, which he was President 1947/48. In 1963 he received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for outstanding contributions to the understanding of metamorphism and origin of granite. He was also awarded the Bigsby Medal and the Wollaston Medal ( 1952) of the Geological Society of London and the Penrose Medal ( 1967) of the Geological Society of America.

Writings

  • Geology. An introduction to earth history, Oxford University Press 1949
  • Janet Wilson Introduction to Geology, Wiley 1962, 2nd edition, Macmillan 1968
  • British regional geology: The grampian highlands, HM Stationery Office, Edinburgh 1935, 1948
  • The granite controversy; geology addresses Illustrating the evolution of a debater, London, T. Murby 1957
  • Janet Wilson Beginning Geology, Macmillan, 1966, 1978
  • As an editor by Frank Rutley Introduction to Mineralogy, London, T. Murby, for example, 19th edition 1916, 24th edition 1948, 26th edition 1970
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