Professor Thomas Maxwell Harris FRS [1] (8 January 1903 – 1 May 1983) [2] was an English paleobotanist.
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 was a Palaeobotanist on East Greenland Geological Survey, 1926-27. [4] He became a professor at the University of Reading in 1934, [5] working in the botany department with Theodora Lisle Prankerd and Terrance Ingold. [1] He was Head of the Department of Botany. [6] At Reading he supervised William Chaloner and Winifred Pennington, both later professors of botany. [6] The Harris Garden, located on the University of Reading's Whiteknights Campus, was named after him. [7]
Harris was a Fellow of the Royal Society. [1] He served as president of the Linnean Society of London from 1961 to 1964.
Professor Thomas Maxwell Harris FRS [1] (8 January 1903 – 1 May 1983) [2] was an English paleobotanist.
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 was a Palaeobotanist on East Greenland Geological Survey, 1926-27. [4] He became a professor at the University of Reading in 1934, [5] working in the botany department with Theodora Lisle Prankerd and Terrance Ingold. [1] He was Head of the Department of Botany. [6] At Reading he supervised William Chaloner and Winifred Pennington, both later professors of botany. [6] The Harris Garden, located on the University of Reading's Whiteknights Campus, was named after him. [7]
Harris was a Fellow of the Royal Society. [1] He served as president of the Linnean Society of London from 1961 to 1964.