Anna Jane Harrison (December 23, 1912 – August 8, 1998) was an American organic chemist and a professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College for nearly forty years.

She was the first female president of the American Chemical Society,[1] and the recipient of twenty honorary degrees.

Her father died when she was seven, leaving her mother to manage the family farm and to care for Harrison and her elder brother.

[2] In 1942 while on leave from teaching during World War II, Harrison conducted secret wartime research at the University of Missouri.

[7] This work was instrumental in the creation of smoke-detecting field kits for the United States Army.

[7] She received a grant from the Petroleum Research Fund Advisory Board of the American Chemical Society for "an experimental study of the far ultraviolet absorption spectra and photodecomposition products of selected organic compounds.

In 1989 she co-authored a textbook with Mount Holyoke College colleague Edwin S. Weaver entitled Chemistry: A Search to Understand.