Thomas Maxwell Harris’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British botanist
A.K.A. T.M.Harris
Is Scientist 
Botanist 
From United Kingdom 
Type Science 
Gender male
Birth 8 January 1903, Leicester

Thomas Maxwell Harris FRS (8 January 1903 – 1 May 1983) was a British botanist.
He was educated at Bootham School, York, Wyggeston School, Leicester, University College, Nottingham and Christ’s College, Cambridge.
He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge and was a Fellow of the Royal Society. He served as President of the Linnean Society of London from 1961 to 1964.

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).

Awards

  • 1968 Linnean Medal
The standard author abbreviation T.M.Harris. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.
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