| Authorised form of name | Harris; Geoffrey Wingfield (1913 - 1971); physiologist; endocrinologist |
| Dates | 1913 - 1971 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Acton, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 04 June 1913 |
| Place of death | Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 29 November 1971 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial: Bladon churchyard. |
| Occupation | Physiologist and endocrinologist |
| Research field | Endocrinology |
| Neuroendocrinology |
| Physiology |
| Activity | Education:
Dulwich College; University College, London; Emmanuel College, Cambridge MB 1939; MB 1939; MD 1944; ScD 1950
Career:
Demonstrator in anatomy at Cambridge (1940-1947); lecturer in anatomy (1947-1948); lecturer in physiology (1947-1952); head of the laboratory of experimental neuroendocrinology at the Maudsley Hospital, London (1952); professor of physiology at the University of London (1953); Dr Lee's professor of anatomy in Oxford, honorary director of the Medical Research Council's neuroendocrinology unit in the university, and fellow of Hertford College, Oxford (1962-1971).
Awards/Medals:
Dale medal of the Endocrine Society 1971
Honours:
CBE 1965 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1953 |
| Age at election | 39 |
| Proposer | Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans |
| Guy Frederic Marrian |
| Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann |
| Ivan de Burgh Daly |
| Sydney John Folley |
| Wilhelm Feldberg |
| Alan Lloyd Hodgkin |
| John Hammond |
| William Albert Hugh Rushton |
| Solly Zuckerman |
| Alan Sterling Parkes |
| Ernest Basil Verney |
| Relationships | Parents: Thomas Harris, physicist, and Winifred Irene, née Stiles, of Buckinghamshire.
Spouse: 1) (m. 1936) Georgina Mary Birnie (divorced 1951); 2) (m. 1951) Margaret (Peggy) O'Kane, daughter of Dr Michael John O'Kane.
Children: One son from his first marriage and two daughters from his second marriage. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 17960
RCN 8696 |
| OtherInfo | His life's work led to the creation of neuroendocrinology, of which he is regarded as the father figure. Prior to the 1930s the connection between the nervous system and the endocrine glands was unknown.
In 1986 The Physiological Society established a lecture in memory of Harris. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Source | Sources:
DNB (MP)
AssocMaterial:
CSAC 4/73. Papers deposited in Bodleian Library, Oxford
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1972 vol 18 pp 309-329, plate, by Marthe Vogt |
| Code | NA6307 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/65/47/59 | Telephone message from G W Harris, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London | 20 September 1961 |
| GLB/65/47/62 | Brown to G W Harris, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London | 8 January 1962 |
| GLB/65/47/57 | Brown to G W Harris, Dulwich Village | 18 April 1961 |
| EC/1953/13 | Harris, Geoffrey Wingfield: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| GLB/65/47/60 | Brown's secretary to G W Harris, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London | 22 September 1961 |
| GLB/65/47/56 | G W Harris, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London to Brown | 10 April 1961 |
| GLB/65/47/58 | G W Harris, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London to Brown | 11 September 1961 |
| GLB/65/47/53 | G W Harris, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London to Brown | 12 March 1954 |
| IM/GA/WS/4428 | Harris, Geoffrey Wingfield | nd |
| GLB/65/47/54 | Brown to G W Harris, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London | 18 March 1954 |
| GLB/65/47/61 | G W Harris, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London to Brown | 15 December 1961 |
| IM/001953 | Harris, Geoffrey Wingfield | November 1971 |
| RR/58/1 | Referee's report by Alan Sterling Parkes, on a paper 'The induction of ovulation in the rabbit, by electrical stimulation of the hypothalamo-hypophysial mechanism' by Geoffrey Wingfield Harris | December 1936 |
| RR/69/144 | Letter from from Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark , on a paper 'The innervation and actions of the neurophypophysis; an investigation using the method of remote-control stimulation' by Geoffrey Wingfield Harris to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 18 August 1945 |
| RR/69/146 | Referee's report by Joshua Harold Burn, on a paper 'The innervation and actions of the neurophypophysis; an investigation using the method of remote-control stimulation' by Geoffrey Wingfield Harris | 1945 |
| RR/69/143 | Memorandum from J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, on a paper 'The innervation and actions of the neurophypophysis; an investigation using the method of remote-control stimulation' by Geoffrey Wingfield Harris to Joseph Barcroft | 2 August 1945 |
| RR/69/145 | Referee's report by Ernest Basil Verney, on a paper 'The innervation and actions of the neurophypophysis; an investigation using the method of remote-control stimulation' by Geoffrey Wingfield Harris | 1945 |
| RR/76/52 | Referee's report by Alan Sterling Parkes, on a paper 'Functional grafts of the anterior pituitary gland' by Geoffrey Wingfield Harris and Dora Jacobsohn | 17 August 1951 |