Prof Edward Philip Harrison FRSE (1877 – 6 May 1948) was a British physicist and meteorologist.
He studied physics at University College London and did further postgraduate training in Zurich.
[1] During the First World War he appears to have been deeply involved in the development of torpedoes and magnetic mines.
In 1923 he began working as Chief Scientist at the Royal Navy's new HMS Vernon a land-based research station specialising in torpedoes.
His role during the Second World War is again unclear, but he seems to have been involved in further naval weaponry research.