Professor Thomas Maxwell Harris FRS[1] (8 January 1903 – 1 May 1983)[2] was an English paleobotanist.
[2] Tom Harris was a Palaeobotanist on East Greenland Geological Survey, 1926-27.
[4] He became a professor at the University of Reading in 1934,[5] working in the botany department with Theodora Lisle Prankerd and Terrance Ingold.
[6] At Reading he supervised William Chaloner and Winifred Pennington, both later professors of botany.
[6] The Harris Garden, located on the University of Reading's Whiteknights Campus, was named after him.