Ross Granville Harrison
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| Born | January 13, 1870 Germantown, Pa., U.S. |
| Died | September 30, 1959 (aged 89) New Haven, Conn |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | biology and anatomy |
| Institutions |
Bryn Mawr College(1894–1985) Yale (1907–1938) |
| Alma mater |
Johns Hopkins University (BA 1889, PhD 1894) University of Bonn (MD 1899) |
| Known for | tissue culture |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
Ross Granville Harrison (January 13, 1870 – September 30, 1959) was an American biologist and anatomist credited as the first to work successfully with artificial tissue culture.
Harrison received his early schooling in Baltimore, where his family had moved from Germantown, Philadelphia. Announcing in his mid teens a resolve to study medicine, he entered Johns Hopkins University in 1886, receiving his BA degree in 1889 at the age of nineteen. In 1890, he worked as a laboratory assistant for the United States Fish Commission, studying the embryology of the oyster with his close friend E. G. Conklin and H. V. Wilson.
In 1891, he participated in a marine zoology field trip to Jamaica. He worked in Bonn, Germany during 1892–3, 1895–6 and 1898, attracted to the work of Moritz Nussbaum, becoming an M.D. there in 1899. He gained his Ph.D. in 1894 after courses in physiology with H. Newell Martin and morphology with William Keith Brooks. He devoted study to mathematics, astronomy and also the Latin and Greek classics. He worked with T. H. Morgan as a lecturer in morphology at Bryn Mawr. He married Ida Lange (1874-1967) in Altona, Germany on January 9, 1896 and they had a family of five children.
From 1899 until 1907 he was the Associate Professor of Anatomy at Johns Hopkins University, teaching histology and embryology. By this time he had contributed more than twenty papers and made the acquaintance of many leading biologists. His work on tissue culture became very influential.
He then moved to New Haven to take up a post at Yale University, where he was Bronson Professor of Comparative Anatomy, participating through to 1913 in a revitalisation and re-organisation of the several faculties of which he became a member. He undertook further studies at the United States Fish Commission in the early years of the century. In 1913 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. From 1914 until his retirement in 1938, Harrison was the Medical School's chief advisor on staffing.
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