[1] Harrison was educated at Oundle School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied medicine and graduated MB BChir in 1944, before receiving further training at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
[2] He was the Fullerian Professor of Physiology from 1961 until 1967, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973.
He was elected President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland for 1977 to 1979.
[3] Harrison was knighted in the 1984 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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