[2] Beevers received Stephen Hales Prize in 1970 and Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award in 1999.
[2] Harry Beevers was born in Shildon, County Durham in the north east of England in on January 10, 1924.
His parents felt strongly about the benefits of education and six of their eight children (of whom Harry was the second) went on to earn university degrees.
[3] At the age of six the family moved to Upper Weardale where Harry attended schools in Wearhead and St. John's Chapel.
As he was attending university during the Second World War Harry undertook fire-watching duties at night on campus.
[3][2] Beevers added to his student grant through beating at grouse hunts and gathering rose hips which were made into a vitamin C rich dietary supplement.
This position was secured through R. E. Girton, a Purdue plant physiologist who was taking a sabbatical year in W. O. James' Oxford laboratory.
[3] In 1950, not long after his arrival in America, Harry attended his first meeting of the American Society of Plant Physiologists in Columbus, Ohio.
[3] In 1961, Harry's brother Leonard Beevers (d. 2014[6]) made the journey to America with his wife Pat.