Tom Harris (botanist) facts for kids

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

Education and career

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

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

Harris was a Fellow of the Royal Society. He served as president of the Linnean Society of London from 1961 to 1964.

Awards

1968 Linnean Medal

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