ProfessorThomas Maxwell HarrisFRS[1](8 January 1903 – 1 May 1983)[2]was an Englishpaleobotanist.
Education and career
editHe was educated atBootham School,York,[3]Wyggeston School,Leicester, andUniversity College, Nottingham,before continuing to complete his doctorate atChrist's College, Cambridge.[2]
Tom Harris was a Palaeobotanist on East Greenland Geological Survey, 1926-27.[4]He became a professor at theUniversity of Readingin 1934,[5]working in the botany department withTheodora Lisle Prankerdand Terrance Ingold.[1]He was Head of the Department ofBotany.[6]At Reading he supervisedWilliam ChalonerandWinifred Pennington,both later professors of botany.[6]TheHarris Garden,located on the University of Reading'sWhiteknights Campus,was named after him.[7]
Harris was aFellow of the Royal Society.[1]He served as president of theLinnean Society of Londonfrom 1961 to 1964.
Awards
edit- 1968Linnean Medal
Partial bibliography
edit- The Fossil Flora of Scoresby Sound East Greenland(Copenhagen,1931).
- The British Rhaetic Flora(London,1938).
- British Purbeck Charophyta(London, 1939).
- Liassic and Rhaetic Plants collected in 1936-38 from East Greenland, etc.(Copenhagen, 1946).
- Conifers of the Taxiodiaceæ from the Wealden Formation of Belgium, etc.(Brussels,1953).
- The Yorkshire Jurassic flora(five volumes, London, 1961–1979).
References
edit- ^abcChaloner, W. G.(1985). "Thomas Maxwell Harris. 8 January 1903 – 1 May 1983".Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.31:228–260.doi:10.1098/rsbm.1985.0009.S2CID72170558.
- ^abHARRIS, Thomas Maxwell,Who Was Who,A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
- ^Bootham School Register.York, England: Bootham Old Scholars Association. 2011.
- ^Desmond, Ray (1977).Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists.Taylor & Francis.ISBN9780850660890.
- ^Chaloner, W. G. (1985). "Thomas Maxwell Harris. 8 January 1903 – 1 May 1983".Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.31:229–260.doi:10.1098/rsbm.1985.0009.ISSN0080-4606.JSTOR769926.S2CID72170558.
- ^abJ. B. Riding (interviewer),Interview with Professor William G. (Bill) ChalonerArchived21 February 2006 at theWayback Machine,atUniversity College London,AASP Oral History Project,The Palynological Society,16 December 2002.
- ^"The Harris Garden – Description".Friends of the Harris Garden. Archived fromthe originalon 23 January 2009.Retrieved28 May2009.
- ^International Plant Names Index.T.M.Harris.
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