Jeffrey Harborne

Jeffrey Barry Harborne (1 September 1928-21 July 2002) was the Professor of Botany at the University of Reading, 1976-93, then Professor emeritus. He specialised in phytochemistry. He contributed to more than 40 books and 270 research papers and was a pioneer in ecological biochemistry, particularly in the complex chemical language between plants, microbes and insects.

Education

* Wycliffe College, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire
* University of Bristol (BSc; PhD 1953; DSc 1966).

Work

* Biochemist, John Innes Institute, 1955-65
* Research Fellow, University of Liverpool, 1965-68
* Reader, University of Reading, 1968-76
* Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Austin, 1976
* Visiting Professor, University of California, 1977

He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Phytochemistry, 1972-98.

Honours

* Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 1956
* Fellow of the Biochemical Society, 1957
* Plenary Lecturer, IUPAC Natural Products Symposium, 1976
* Gold Medal in Botany, Linnean Society, 1985
* Fellow of the Linnean Society, 1986
* Silver Medal, Phytochemical Society of Europe, 1986
* Silver Medal, International Society of Chemical Ecology, 1993
* Fellow of the Institute of Biology, 1994
* Fellow of the Royal Society, 1995

Publications

* Biochemistry of Phenolic Compounds, 1964
* Comparative Biochemistry of the Flavonoids, 1967
* Phytochemical Phylogeny, 1970
* Phytochemical Ecology, 1972
* Phytochemical Methods, 1973, 3rd edn 1998
* Introduction to Ecological Biochemistry, 1977, 4th edn 1993
* Phytochemical Aspects of Plant and Animal Coevolution, 1978
* Plant Chemosystematics, 1984
* The Flavonoids: advances in research since 1986, 1994

Publications with Herbert Baxter

* Phytochemical Dictionary, 1993, 2nd edn 1999
* Dictionary of Plant Toxins, 1996
* The Handbook of Flavonoid Pigments, 1999
* The Handbook of Natural Flavonoids, 1999
* Chemical Dictionary of Economic Plants, 2001