Roy M. Harrison
{{Short description|British environmental chemist (born 1948)}}
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| name = Roy Harrison
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|10|14|df=y}}
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| nationality = British
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| workplaces = {{plainlist|
- University of Birmingham
- King Abdulaziz University
- Imperial College London
- Lancaster University
- University of Essex
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| education = Henley Grammar School{{Who's Who | title=Harison, Prof. Roy Michael | id = U19276 | doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U19276 | year = 2019 }}
| alma_mater = University of Birmingham (BSc, PhD, DSc)
| thesis_title = Sigmatropic rearrangements of tropolone ethers
| thesis_url = http://findit.bham.ac.uk/44BIR_VU1:CSCOP_44BIR_DEEP:44BIR_ALEPH_DS000107183
| thesis_year = 1972
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| awards = John Jeyes Medal{{when|date=August 2017}}
| website = {{URL|http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/harrison-roy.aspx}}
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- {{marriage|Angela Copeman|1981|end=div}}
- {{marriage|Susan Sturt|1989}}
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| children = 3
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Roy Michael Harrison (born 14 October 1948) is a British environmental scientist. He has been Queen Elizabeth II Birmingham Centenary Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Birmingham since 1991, and is a distinguished adjunct professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.{{ORCID|0000-0002-2684-5226}}{{Scopus id}}
Early life and education
Roy Michael Harrison was born on 14 October 1948 to Wilfred and Rosa Harrison ({{nee|Cotton}}). He was educated at Henley Grammar School and the University of Birmingham, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1969, followed by a PhD in organic chemistry in 1972 and a Doctor of Science degree in environmental chemistry in 1989.{{cite web|url=http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/harrison-roy.aspx|title=Professor Roy Harrison OBE FRS|author=Anon|year=2017|website=birmingham.ac.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223180238/http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/harrison-roy.aspx|archive-date=2017-02-23}} His PhD research investigated sigmatropic reactions of tropolone ethers.{{cite journal|last1=Harrison|first1=Roy M.|last2=Hobson|first2=John D.|last3=Midgley|first3=Alan W.|year=1973|title=Claisen rearrangement of tropolone ethers. Part III|journal=Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1|pages=1960|doi=10.1039/p19730001960|issn=0300-922X}} {{closed access}}{{cite thesis|last=Harrison|first=Roy Michael|title=Sigmatropic rearrangements of tropolone ethers|date=1973|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Birmingham|url=http://findit.bham.ac.uk/44BIR_VU1:CSCOP_44BIR_DEEP:44BIR_ALEPH_DS000107183|website=findit.bham.ac.uk|oclc=911143208}}
Research and career
Harrison is an expert on air pollution, specialising in the area of airborne particulates, including nanoparticles.{{cite journal|last1=Harrison|first1=Roy M.|last2=Yin|first2=Jianxin|year=2000|title=Particulate matter in the atmosphere: which particle properties are important for its effects on health?|journal=Science of the Total Environment|volume=249|issue=1–3|pages=85–101|doi=10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00513-6|pmid=10813449 |issn=0048-9697|bibcode=2000ScTEn.249...85H}} {{closed access}} His interests extend from source emissions, through atmospheric chemical and physical transformations,{{Cite journal|last1=Dall'Osto|first1=Manuel|last2=Ovadnevaite|first2=Jurgita|last3=Paglione|first3=Marco|last4=Beddows|first4=David C. S.|last5=Ceburnis|first5=Darius|last6=Cree|first6=Charlotte|last7=Cortés|first7=Pau|last8=Zamanillo|first8=Marina|last9=Nunes|first9=Sdena O.|year=2017|title=Antarctic sea ice region as a source of biogenic organic nitrogen in aerosols|journal=Scientific Reports|volume=7|issue=1|pages=6047|doi=10.1038/s41598-017-06188-x|issn=2045-2322|pmc=5519629|pmid=28729547|bibcode=2017NatSR...7.6047D}} {{open access}} to human exposures and effects upon health. His most significant work has been in the field of vehicle emitted particles, including their chemical composition and atmospheric processing.{{Cite journal|last1=Harrison|first1=Roy M.|last2=Beddows|first2=David C.|year=2017|title=Efficacy of Recent Emissions Controls on Road Vehicles in Europe and Implications for Public Health|journal=Scientific Reports|volume=7|issue=1|pages=1152|doi=10.1038/s41598-017-01135-2|issn=2045-2322|pmc=5430659|pmid=28442773|bibcode=2017NatSR...7.1152H}} {{open access}} This forms the basis of the current understanding of the relationship of emissions to roadside concentrations and size distributions.{{cite journal|last1=Harrison|first1=Roy M.|last2=Smith|first2=D. J. T.|last3=Luhana|first3=L.|year=1996|title=Source Apportionment of Atmospheric Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Collected from an Urban Location in Birmingham, U.K.|journal=Environmental Science & Technology|volume=30|issue=3|pages=825–832|doi=10.1021/es950252d|issn=0013-936X|bibcode=1996EnST...30..825H}} {{closed access}}{{cite journal|last1=Castro|first1=L.M.|last2=Pio|first2=C.A.|last3=Harrison|first3=Roy M.|last4=Smith|first4=D.J.T.|year=1999|title=Carbonaceous aerosol in urban and rural European atmospheres: estimation of secondary organic carbon concentrations|journal=Atmospheric Environment|volume=33|issue=17|pages=2771–2781|doi=10.1016/S1352-2310(98)00331-8|issn=1352-2310|bibcode=1999AtmEn..33.2771C}} {{closed access}}
In addition to leading a large project on diesel exhaust particles, he is also engaged in major collaborative studies of processes determining air quality in Beijing and Delhi.
= Awards and honours =
Harrison's work has been recognised by award of the John Jeyes Medal and Environment Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Fitzroy Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society. He has served for many years as a chair and/or member of advisory committees of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department of Health. He was appointed Order of the British Empire OBE in the 2004 New Year Honours for services to environmental science{{London Gazette |issue=57155 |date=2003-12-31 |page=11 |supp=11 }} and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/roy-harrison-13393/|title=Professor Roy Harrison OBE FRS|author=Anon|year=2017|website=royalsociety.org|publisher=Royal Society|location=London}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{quote|“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |access-date=2016-03-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111170346/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archive-date=2016-11-11 }}}}
Personal life
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Category:20th-century British chemists