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PROF. D. T. HARRIS, on whom the title of professor emeritus has been conferred by the University of London, is to retire at the end of the present session from the chair of physiology which he has held at the London Hospital for the past sixteen years. Prof. Harris studied physics as a special subject at Cardiff, where he took his B.Sc. in 1904. He graduated in medicine at Manchester in 1914 and after holding various hospital appointments and experiencing general practice served as a temporary captain in the R.A.M.C. After a short period as lecturer in physiology at Manchester under Prof. William Stirling, he joined the Institute of Physiology at University College, London, where he held a Beit Memorial Research Fellowship and as Sharpey Research Scholar came under the influence of Sir William Baylis and Prof. E. H. Starling. He obtained the D.Sc. London in 1926 and held the post of assistant professor of physiology in University College, London, when he was appointed to the chair at the London Hospital in 1932. Throughout his academic career Prof. Harris has maintained his interest in physics, his scientific work being mainly concerned with problems arising in the territory bridging physics and physiology, and in particular with the biological action of ultra-violet radiations and ultra-short waves. His contributions to knowledge of these subjects have been published in a series of papers in the Journals of Physiology, Biochemistry and Scientific Instruments, and his textbook on "Ultra-Violet Radiation"is widely used by operators of ultra-violet lamps who Wish to study underlying principles and methods of measurement. In another direction he applied his knowledge of physics to his hobby—photography—and this brought him in contact with the scientific research workers in the cinematograph industry, to whom he gave a series of lectures on stereoscopy.
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Physiology at the London Hospital Prof. D. T. Harris. Nature 162, 407–408 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162407c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162407c0