Vernon Harrison
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
- Website of the SPR. (English).
- Literature by and about Vernon Harrison in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ Who's who in Science in Europe , Volume 2 Francis Hodgson Ltd., England / Channel Islands 1967, p.688
- ^ Presidents of The Royal Photographic Society August 2009
- ↑ ASSAP: About Us. (accessed February 4, 2014)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Vernon Harrison: About the Author. In: Blavatsky and the SPR . P. 83 f.
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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 |