Background
Read, Thomas Albert was born on October 21, 1913 in Montclair, New Jersey, United States. Son of Thomas Thornton and Mary Carleton (Peck) Read.
Read, Thomas Albert was born on October 21, 1913 in Montclair, New Jersey, United States. Son of Thomas Thornton and Mary Carleton (Peck) Read.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1934, Doctor of Philosophy, 1940. Student Technische Hochschule, Munich, Germany, 1932-1933.
1 son, Thomas Thornton World World War II Westinghouse research fellow Westinghouse Research Laboratory, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1939-1941. Principal physicist Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, 1941-1947, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1947-1948. Associate professor metallurgy Columbia, 1948-1954.
Professor, head department mining, metallurgical, petroleum engineering University of Illinois, since 1954.
Fellow American Physical Society. Member American Institute Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education, American Society Metals, Institute Metals (London), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi.
Married Doris Pascal, November 4, 1935.