Tom Harris (botanist)
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Professor Tom Harris was a distinguished paleobotanist and keen gardener.
Tom Harris was an academic at the University of Reading who was Head of the Department of Botany.[1]
Harris supervised William Chaloner (botanist) and Winifred Pennington, both later professors of botany.[1]
Tom Harris would say to students: "If you're not prepared to die for botany, you'd better be prepared to kill for it!"[citation needed]
The Harris Garden, located on the University of Reading's Whiteknights Campus, was named after him.[2]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J. B. Riding (interviewer), Interview with Professor William G. (Bill) Chaloner, at University College London, AASP Oral History Project, The Palynological Society, 16 December 2002.
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