| Authorised form of name | Read; John (1884 - 1963) |
| Dates | 1884 - 1963 |
| Date of birth | 17 February 1884 |
| Date of death | 21/01/1963 |
| Activity | Education:
MA (Camb); BSc (Lond); PhD (Zurich)
Career:
Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Chemical Research Laboratories, United College, University of St Andrews
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/05/1935 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1963 vol 9 pp 237-260, plate, by E L Hirst |
| Code | NA1805 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/003761 | Read, John | 09 June 1948 |
| EC/1935/15 | Read, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/WS/2495 | Read, John | 1946 |
| RR/56/85 | Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'The absorption of monochromatic X-ray beams, of wave-length in the region 50 to 20 X-units, in lead, tin, copper, and iron' by John Read | [June 1935] |
| L&P/10/86 | Paper, 'Experiments and observations made with the doubler of electricity, with a view to determine its real utility, in the investigation of the electricity of atmospheric air in different degrees of purity' by John Read | 1794 |
| L&P/9/195 | Paper, 'A meteorological journal, principally relating to atmospheric electricity, 1789-90' by John Read | 1791 |