Herbert H. Read

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

In 1960 he received the Gustav-Steinmann Medal , in honor of his contributions to the study of the basement and the Granite (eulogy). In 1948 he initiated a project to explore the granites of County Donegal that would become the life work of his student Wallace S. Pitcher . Originally Read wanted to prove his granitization theory (conversion of surrounding rocks by granitic melts into granites), but in this case it turned out to be wrong.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1939) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Geological Society of London , of which he was President in 1947/48. In 1954 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences . In 1963 he received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for outstanding contributions to the understanding of rock metamorphosis and the origin of granite . He also received the Bigsby Medal and Wollaston Medal (1952) from the Geological Society of London and the Penrose Medal (1967) from the Geological Society of America .

The Read Mountains in the East Antarctic Coatsland are named in his honor .

Fonts

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

literature

  • J. Sutton: Herbert Harold Read. 1889-1970 . Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Volume 16, 1970, pp. 479-426

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laudation Steinmann Medal ( memento of the original from June 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gv.de
  2. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter R. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 20, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Read, Herbert H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Read, Herbert Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Whitstable
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1970