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Authorised form of nameRead; Herbert Harold (1889 - 1970)
Dates1889 - 1970
Date of birth17 December 1889
Date of death29/03/1970
ActivityCareer:
Professor of Geology, University of Liverpool
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1939
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1963
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1970 vol 16 pp 479-497, plate, by J Sutton
CodeNA1845
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1939/15Read, Herbert Harold: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/56/362Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Herbert [Harold] Read, FRS21 January 1919
RR/69/258Referee'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 Rayleigh29 June 1945
RR/69/259Letter 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 Egerton17 August 1945
RR/69/260Letter 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 Egerton17 September 1945
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