Pauline Harrison, Date of Birth

Pauline Harrison

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1926

Profession: chemist, biochemist, crystallographer

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Pauline May Harrison (née Cowan) is a British protein crystallographer and professor emeritus at the University of Sheffield.
She gained her chemistry degree from Somerville College, Oxford in 1948, followed by a DPhil in X-ray crystallography in 1952 supervised by Dorothy Hodgkin. After 3 years at King's College London (contemporary with Rosalind Franklin) she moved to the University of Sheffield in 1955 as a demonstrator in the Biochemistry department (now Molecular Biology and Biotechnology), obtaining an MRC grant to study the iron storage protein Ferritin, publishing preliminary X-ray diffraction data in the 1st volume of the Journal of Molecular Biology in 1959.
The molecule which became her life's work.In 1978, she was awarded a personal chair and retired in 1991.
In 2001 she was awarded a CBE for services to higher education.