Prof Bryan Harrison, CBE, FRS, FRSE

Career: res scientist: Virology Section Scot Horticultural Research Inst Dundee 1954-57, Plant Pathology Dept Rothamsted Experimental Station Harpenden 1957-66; James Hutton Inst (formerly Horticultural Research Inst then Scot Crop Research Inst Dundee): research scientist and head Virology Dept 1966-91, sr pso 1969, dep chief scientific offr 1981, hon research prof 1996-2006, hon research fell 2006-; Univ of Dundee: hon visiting prof 1988-91, prof of plant virology 1991-96, prof emeritus 1997-; hon prof Univ of St Andrews 1986-98, hon visiting prof Univ of Zhejiang PRC 2001-; Hon Doctorate in Agriculture and Forestry Univ of Helsinki 1990; hon memb: Assoc of Applied Biologists 1989, Soc for Gen Microbiology 1990, Phytopathological Soc of Japan 1992; foreign assoc US Nat Acad of Sciences 1998; FRSE 1979, FRS 1987

Books and Publications: Publications Plant Virology: the Principles (with A J Gibbs, 1976, translated into Russian and Chinese), over 200 research papers and reviews on plant viruses