Harry Fielding Reid

Harry Fielding Reid
Dr. H.F. Reid in Southeastern Alaska. (USGS photo by Charles Will Wright, 1933)
BornMay 18, 1859
DiedJune 18, 1944 (aged 85)
NationalityAmerican
Scientific career
FieldsGeophysics
Doctoral advisorHenry Augustus Rowland
Other academic advisorsJames Joseph Sylvester

Harry Fielding Reid (May 18, 1859 – June 18, 1944) was an American geophysicist. He was notable for his contributions to seismology, particularly his theory of elastic rebound that related faults to earthquakes.[1]

  1. ^ Sources for this article include archival materials from the Ferdinand Hamburger Archives of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries, correspondence between the subject and colleagues/family members, and a biography of Reid written by Andrew Lawson and Perry Byerly for the Biographical Memoirs of the National Aacdemy of Sciences, vol. XXVI (1951), pp. 1-12.

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