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British geologist
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Place of birth
Whitstable, England, United Kingdom
Age
80 years
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Biography
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)
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