Background
Harrison, Ross Granville was born on January 13, 1870 in Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel and Katherine (Diggs) Harrison.
Harrison, Ross Granville was born on January 13, 1870 in Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel and Katherine (Diggs) Harrison.
Bachelor of Arts, Johns Hopkins, 1889, Doctor of Philosophy, 1894, Doctor of Laws, 1942. Doctor of Medicine, University Bonn, 1899. Master of Arts (honorary), Yale, 1907.
Doctor of Science, University Cincinnati, 1920, University of Michigan, 1929, University of Dublin, 1932, Harvard, 1936, Yale, 1939, Columbia, 1940, University of Chicago, 1949.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University of Freiburg, 1929. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University of Budapest, 1935.
Doctor Review National, University of Tübingen, 1953.
Instructor and associate in anatomy Johns Hopkins, 1896-1899, associate professor anatomy, 1899-1907. Professor comparative anatomy Yale, 1907-1927, Sterling professor of biology, 1927-1938, professor emeritus, since 1938. Chairman National Research Council, Washington, 1938-1946.
President 6th Pacific Science Congress, 1939.
Dunham lecturer Harvard, 1926. Croonian lecturer Royal Society, London, 1933.
Linacre lecturer Saint John's College, Cambridge, 1939. Silliman lecturer Yale, 1949.
Member science committee National Resources Planning Board, 1938-1943. Member United States National Committee for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1946-1951. Conference board, Association.
Member of advisory board Wistar Institute.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president 1936). Member National Academy Sciences (council 1932-1946), Connecticut Academy, American Philosophical Society (council 1941-1944, vice president 1947-1950), American Society Zoologists (president 1924), Society Study Development and Growth (president 1946-1947), Beaumont Medical.
Club (president 1933), American Association Anatomists (president 1912-1913), Anatomische Gesellschaft (president 1934-1935), Royal Physiog Society (Lund), Royal Society Science (Uppsala), American Society Naturalists (secretary 1902-1904, president 1913), American Neurological Association, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine. Member Göttingen Akad der Wissenshaften, Deutsche Academy Sciences, Bavarian Academy Science, Academy National Science Philadelphia, Academy des Sciences de l’Institut de France, Society de Biological, Paris.
Member Connecticut Medical Society, Harvey Society, Royal Academy Medicine, Turin, Royal Academy Medicine, Belgium, New York Academy Science.
Member Royal Netherlands, Norwegian, Royal Swedish academics science, Academy Nazionale Lincei, Rome, Stockholm, Zool Society, London, Royal Society, London. Foreign correspondent, Academy Science of Institute of Bologna, Italy.
Married Ida Lange, January 9, 1896. Children: Dorothea Katharine, Elizabeth Ross, Richard Edes, Eleanor Barrington (Mistress Rufus Putney, Junior.