Sir Henry Harris FRS FAA (28 January 1925 – 31 October 2014)[2][3] was an Australian professor of medicine at the University of Oxford who led pioneering work on cancer and human genetics in the 2000s.
He studied medicine at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and began a career in medical research rather than in clinical practice.
In the early 1950s, Harris moved to England to study at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford under Howard Florey.
Harris and his colleagues developed some of the basic techniques for investigating and measuring genes along the human chromosome.
In 1965, he reported his observation that most nuclear RNA was non-coding, a view that was not widely accepted until years later.