What is Harry Fielding Reid?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Harry Fielding Reid |image =HarryFieldingReid 1933.jpg |image_size =150px |caption = Dr. H.F. Reid in Southeastern Alaska. (USGS photo by Charles Will Wright, 1933) |birth_date = May 18, 1859 |birth_place = [[Baltimore, Maryland]] |death_date = June 18, 1944 (aged 85) |death_place = [[Baltimore, Maryland]] |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[United States|American]] |ethnicity = |field = [[Geophysics]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = [[Henry Augustus Rowland]] |academic_advisors = [[James Joseph Sylvester]] |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Harry Fielding Reid''' (May 18, 1859 – June 18, 1944) was an [[Americans|American]] [[geophysicist]]. He was known for his works to [[seismology]], mostly in [[elastic-rebound theory|his theory of elastic rebound]] that was about [[fault (geology)|fault]]s to [[earthquakes]].<ref>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.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Reid, Harry Fielding}} [[Category:1859 births]] [[Category:1944 deaths]] [[Category:American physicists]] [[Category:Scientists from Baltimore]] {{us-bio-stub}}