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Tom Harris (botanist)

Tom Harris (botanist)

Professor Thomas Maxwell Harris FRS[1] (8 January 1903 – 1 May 1983)[2] was an English paleobotanist.

Education and career

He was educated at Bootham School, York,[3] Wyggeston School, Leicester, and University College, Nottingham, before continuing to complete his doctorate at Christ's College, Cambridge.[2]

Tom Harris became a professor at the University of Reading in 1934,[4] working in the botany department with Theodora Lisle Prankerd and Terrance Ingold.[1] He was Head of the Department of Botany.[5] At Reading he supervised William Chaloner and Winifred Pennington, both later professors of botany.[5] The Harris Garden, located on the University of Reading's Whiteknights Campus, was named after him.[6]

Harris was a Fellow of the Royal Society.[1] He served as President of the Linnean Society of London from 1961 to 1964.

Awards

  • 1968 Linnean Medal

Partial bibliography

  • 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

[1]
Citation Link//doi.org/10.1098%2Frsbm.1985.0009Chaloner, 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.
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[2]
Citation Linkwww.ukwhoswho.comHARRIS, Thomas Maxwell, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
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[3]
Citation Linkopenlibrary.orgBootham School Register. York, England: Bootham Old Scholars Association. 2011.
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[4]
Citation Linkportal.issn.orgChaloner, W. G. (1985). "Thomas Maxwell Harris. 8 January 1903-1 May 1983". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 31: 229–260. ISSN 0080-4606. JSTOR 769926.
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[5]
Citation Linkwww.palynology.orgJ. B. Riding (interviewer), Interview with Professor William G. (Bill) Chaloner Archived 21 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine, at University College London, AASP Oral History Project, The Palynological Society, 16 December 2002.
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[6]
Citation Linkwww.friendsoftheharrisgarden.org.uk"The Harris Garden — Description". Friends of the Harris Garden. Archived from the original on 23 January 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2009.
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Citation Linkwww.ipni.orgIPNI. T.M.Harris.
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Citation Linkdoi.org10.1098/rsbm.1985.0009
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Citation Linkwww.ukwhoswho.comHARRIS, Thomas Maxwell
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Citation Linkwww.worldcat.org0080-4606
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[11]
Citation Linkwww.jstor.org769926
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[12]
Citation Linkwww.palynology.orgInterview with Professor William G. (Bill) Chaloner
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Citation Linkweb.archive.orgArchived
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Citation Linkwww.palynology.orgThe Palynological Society
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Citation Linkweb.archive.org"The Harris Garden — Description"
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Citation Linkwww.friendsoftheharrisgarden.org.ukthe original
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Citation Linkwww.ipni.orgT.M.Harris
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