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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.
Jun 14, 2024 · Harry Fielding Reid was an American seismologist and glaciologist who in 1911 developed the elastic rebound theory of earthquake mechanics, still accepted today. Reid was professor of applied mechanics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, from 1896 until he became emeritus professor in 1930.
From an examination of the displacement of the ground surface which accompanied the 1906 earthquake, Henry Fielding Reid, Professor of Geology at Johns Hopkins University, concluded that the earthquake must have involved an "elastic rebound" of previously stored elastic stress.
HARRY FIELDING REID. 1859-1944. BY ANDREW C. LAWSON and PERRY BYERLY. Harry Fielding Reid was born May 18, 1859 in the city of Baltimore and died June 18, 1944. As a boy he went to school in Lausanne, Switzerland, where the family lived for some years.
Jun 11, 2018 · Reid, Harry Fielding (1849–1944) An American geophysicist, Reid proposed the ‘elastic rebound’ theory of earthquake motion after studying the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He was a vigorous opponent of continental drift theory, describing Wegener's work as ‘pseudo-scientific’.
Harry Fielding Reid was professor of geology at The Johns Hopkins University and a distinguished geologist known for his contributions in the fields of seismology and glaciology.
The elastic rebound theory of earthquake sources allows rough prediction of the occurrence of large shallow earthquakes. Harry F. Reid gave, for example, a crude forecast of the next great earthquake near San Francisco. (The theory also predicted, of course, that the place would be along…. Read More.
