Henry Harris (scientist)
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| Thesis | Nature of chemical stimuli affecting cells during tissue injury (1953) |
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Sir Henry Harris
Early life and education
Harris was born in 1925 to a Jewish family in the
Career
In the early 1950s, Harris moved to England to study at the
Harris's research interests were primarily focused on cancer cells and their differences from normal cells. He later studied the possibility of genetic modification of human cell lines with the material of other species to increase the range of genetic markers. Harris and his colleagues developed some of the basic techniques for investigating and measuring genes along the human chromosome.
In 1965, he reported his observation that most nuclear
In 1983, Harris was elected to the Australian Academy of Science as a Corresponding Fellow. In 1993, he was knighted.[2]
Much of Harris's work has been supported by Cancer Research UK (formerly the Cancer Research Campaign).[citation needed]
He died on 31 October 2014, aged 89.
Works
Published books
- Harris, Henry (1970). Cell Fusion. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-857344-9.
- Harris, Henry (1968). Nucleus and Cytoplasm. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-854125-7.
- Harris, Henry (1979). Scientific Models and Man. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press and Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-857168-1.
- Harris, Henry (1987). The Balance of Improbabilities: A Scientific Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-858217-5.
- Harris, Henry (1993). Hippolyte's Club Foot: The Medical Roots of Realism in Modern European Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Romanes Lecturefor 1993).
- Harris, Henry (1995). The Cells of the Body: A History of Somatic Cell Genetics. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. ISBN 978-0-87969-533-0.
- Harris, Henry (2000). The Birth of the Cell. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08295-1.
- Harris, Henry (2002). Things Come to Life: Spontaneous Generation Revisited. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-851538-8.
- Harris, Henry (2006). Remnants of a Quiet Life. Twin Serpents Limited. ISBN 978-1-905524-27-3.
References
- PMID 26962590.
- ^ a b c The Guardian. Retrieved 11 December 2014
- ^ Gardner, Richard; Sidebottom, Eric (2018). "Sir Henry Harris. 28 January 1925—31 October 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2018.0014
- ^ http://www.shsobu.org.au/wp-content/uploads/imperial-honours.pdf Archived 23 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
- PMID 17799782.
