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Name
  
Herbert Read


Role
  
Geologist

Died
  
March 29, 1970, Whitstable, United Kingdom

Books
  
Introduction to Geology

Awards
  
Wollaston Medal, Penrose Medal

Herbert Harold Read FRS, FRSE, FGS, (17 December 1889, in Whitstable – 29 March 1970) was a British geologist and Professor of Geology at Imperial College. From 1947-1948 he was president of the Geological Society.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1939 & won its Royal Medal in 1963 for "outstanding contributions to the understanding of the processes of rock metamorphism and the origins of granite". He also was awarded the Bigsby Medal, the Wollaston Medal and the Penrose Medal.

Quotes

"The best geologist is he who has seen the most rocks." (H. H. Read, 1940)

References

Herbert Harold Read Wikipedia


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