About Richard John Harrison
Lived 1920 – 1999 (aged 79). Richard John Harrison was a British anatomist and zoologist.
Sir Richard John Harrison (8 October 1920 – 17 October 1999) was a professor of anatomy at the University of Cambridge.
Harrison was educated at Oundle School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied medicine and graduated MB BChir in 1944, before receiving further training at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was the Fullerian Professor of Physiology from 1961 until 1967, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973. He was elected President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland for 1977 to 1979.
Harrison was knighted in the 1984 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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British anatomist (1920–1999)
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Richard John Harrison was born on 8 October 1920.
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Richard John Harrison died on 17 October 1999.
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Richard John Harrison was an anatomist and zoologist.
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