Vernon Harrison

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Vernon George Wentworth Harrison (born March 15, 1912 in Sutton Coldfield , Warwickshire , England , † October 14, 2001 ) was a British physicist and counterfeiting expert, President of the Royal Photographic Society and a member of the Society for Psychical Research . As a part-time job, Harrison dealt with paranormal phenomena.

Life

Harrison attended Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield and received his PhD from Birmingham University . He was a research physicist in the Printing & Allied Trades Research Association (PATRA). In 1957 he was appointed Director of Research of PATRA and was responsible for human resource management. In 1967 he joined De La Rue , a British company that manufactures banknotes , stamps , ID cards and other types of security documents, as Research Manager . Part of his work was in the area of ​​increasing document security and detecting forgeries. From 1974 to 1976 he was President of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain .

After his retirement in 1977 he went into business for himself as an examiner of questionable documents and was called in as a forgery expert in court . He also dealt with paranormal phenomena. In 1981, together with other members of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), Harrison founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP), a foundation that studies paranormal phenomena such as ghost appearances and crop circles . In 1984 he published in the SPR magazine a criticism of an 1884 SPR report on the occultist Blavatsky ; this so-called Hodgson Report is unsuitable and does not prove that Blavatsky's Mahatma letters are forged.

Harrison was a great fan of the music of Franz Liszt and chairman of the (English) Liszt Society.

Publications

  • The measurement of "shades" of "white" papers, in: Research report (Printing and Allied Trades Research Association (Great Britain)), no. 2-3., Print. and Allied Trades Research Association, London, 1938-1939.
  • Some thoughts on the printing industry, Department of Printing, Leeds College of Technology, Leeds, 1944
  • Definition and measurement of gloss; a survey of published literature, print. and Allied Trades Research Assn., London, 1945
  • Gloss, its definition and measurement, Chemical Pub. Co., Brooklyn, 1949
  • Some recent developments in rheology based of the 1949 Bristol conference of the British Rheologists' Club, United Trade Press, London, 1950
  • Rheology , Butterworths, London 1954
  • The signatures on the walls of Queen's House, Linton, Cambridgeshire, and, Some of the automatic scripts and drawings of Matthew Manning: an appraisal, in: Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. vol. 58, part 218, Society for Psychical Research, London [etc.], 1994
  • HP Blavatsky and the SPR. An examination of the Hodgson report from 1885. Theosophischer Verlag, Hundsangen 1998, ISBN 3-930623-21-8 . Full text of the English version from Theosophical University Press Online Edition , accessed February 4, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Who's who in Science in Europe , Volume 2 Francis Hodgson Ltd., England / Channel Islands 1967, p.688
  2. ^ Presidents of The Royal Photographic Society August 2009
  3. ↑ ASSAP: About Us. (accessed February 4, 2014)
  4. ↑ Horst E. Miers : Lexicon of Secret Knowledge (= Esoteric. Vol. 12179). Original edition; and 3rd updated edition, both Goldmann, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-442-12179-5 , p. 298.
  5. ↑ Vernon Harrison: About the Author. In: Blavatsky and the SPR . P. 83 f.
personal data
SURNAME Harrison, Vernon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harrison, Vernon George Wentworth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English physicist and expert on counterfeiting issues
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Sutton Coldfield
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2001