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Authorised form of nameHarris; Sir; Henry (1925 - 2014)
Dates1925 - 2014
NationalityBritish
Date of birth28/01/1925
Date of death31/10/2014
ActivityHonours:
Kt 1993
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/03/1968
Age at election43
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1971-1972
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1980
Lectures:
Croonian 1971; Humphry Davy and Claude Bernard 1984
SourceReferences:
Henry Harris, 'Howard Florey and the Development of Penicillin' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 243-252
B Heap, 'From the dust of the Earth? Things come to life: spontaneous generation revisited by Henry Harris' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 107-108
R Holliday, 'The early years of molecular biology: personal recollections' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 195-208
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/64145220
CodeNA667
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
GLB/65/47/63H Harris, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford to Brown4 March 1954
IM/GA/GRS/5563Harris, Sir Henrynd
GLB/65/47/64Brown to H Harris, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford8 March 1954
EC/1968/13Harris, Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/001955Harris, Sir Henrynd
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