About Herman Shaw
Lived 1892 – 1950 (aged 57–58). Herman Shaw was an exhibition curator and geophysicist.
Dr Herman Shaw (14 October 1892 – 4 May 1950) was a British geophysicist who was Director of the Science Museum in London, England.
Shaw was born on 14 October 1891 and was the only son of G. H. Shaw of Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School, followed by studying for a degree in physics at the Royal College of Science, starting in 1911 as a Royal Scholar. During World War I, he served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (1915), Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service (1916), and a Captain in the Royal Flying Corps (1917).
In 1919, Shaw married Constance Shaw, the eldest daughter of F. Shaw, of Harrow, London. They had a single son, who died in 1946.
Books Applied Geophysics, H.M.S.O. for the Science Museum (London), 3rd edition, 1938.
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