| Authorised form of name | Read; Herbert Harold (1889 - 1970) |
| Dates | 1889 - 1970 |
| Date of birth | 17 December 1889 |
| Date of death | 29/03/1970 |
| Activity | Career:
Professor of Geology, University of Liverpool
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1939 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1963 |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1970 vol 16 pp 479-497, plate, by J Sutton |
| Code | NA1845 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1939/15 | Read, Herbert Harold: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/56/362 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Herbert [Harold] Read, FRS | 21 January 1919 |
| RR/69/258 | Referee's report by Herbert Harold Read, on a paper 'Red sandstones. An experimental study of the conditions under which they may be formed' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh | 29 June 1945 |
| RR/69/259 | Letter from Herbert Harold Read, on a paper 'Red sandstones. An experimental study of the conditions under which they may be formed' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton | 17 August 1945 |
| RR/69/260 | Letter from Herbert Harold Read, on a paper 'Red sandstones. An experimental study of the conditions under which they may be formed' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton | 17 September 1945 |