Roy M. Harrison

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Roy Harrison

Henley Grammar School[3]
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham (BSc, PhD, DSc)
Spouses
Angela Copeman
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(m. 1981, divorced)​
Susan Sturt
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(m. 1989)​
Children3
AwardsJohn Jeyes Medal[when?]
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisSigmatropic rearrangements of tropolone ethers (1972)
Websitewww.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/harrison-roy.aspx

Roy Michael Harrison

FRMetS[4] (born 14 October 1948)[3] is a British environmental scientist. He has been Queen Elizabeth II Birmingham Centenary Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Birmingham since 1991, and is a distinguished adjunct professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.[1][5]

Early life and education

Roy Michael Harrison was born on 14 October 1948 to Wilfred and Rosa Harrison (

PhD in organic chemistry in 1972 and a Doctor of Science degree in environmental chemistry in 1989.[3][2] His PhD research investigated sigmatropic reactions of tropolone ethers.[6][7]

Research and career

Harrison is an expert on air pollution, specialising in the area of airborne particulates, including nanoparticles.[8] His interests extend from source emissions, through atmospheric chemical and physical transformations,[9] to human exposures and effects upon health.[4] His most significant work has been in the field of vehicle emitted particles, including their chemical composition and atmospheric processing.[4][10] This forms the basis of the current understanding of the relationship of emissions to roadside concentrations and size distributions.[4][11][12]

In addition to leading a large project on diesel exhaust particles, he is also engaged in major collaborative studies of processes determining air quality in Beijing and Delhi.[4]

Awards and honours

Harrison's work has been recognised by award of the

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[4]

Personal life

Harrison married Angela Copeman in 1981. After their divorce, he married Susan Stuart in 1989. Harrison has a son and a daughter from his first marriage, and a son from his second. He enjoys "mowing and other outdoor pursuits".[3]

References

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    ORCID 0000-0002-2684-5226
  2. ^ a b Anon (2017). "Professor Roy Harrison OBE FRS". birmingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 23 February 2017.
  3. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U19276. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ^ a b c d e f Anon (2017). "Professor Roy Harrison OBE FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ Roy M. Harrison publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ISSN 0300-922X. Closed access icon
  7. OCLC 911143208
    .
  8. PMID 10813449. Closed access icon
  9. PMID 28729547. Open access icon
  10. PMID 28442773. Open access icon
  11. ISSN 0013-936X. Closed access icon
  12. ISSN 1352-2310. Closed access icon
  13. ^ "No. 57155". The London Gazette (11th supplement). 31 December 2003. p. 11.
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