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Geoffrey Harris (golfer)
Geoffrey Harris may refer to: * Geoffrey Harris (runner), Canadian middle-distance runner * Geoffrey Harris (neuroendocrinologist), British physiologist and neuroendocrinologist * Geoff Harris Geoff Harris (born ''Wiktionary:circa, ca''. 1952) is an Australian businessman and philanthropist. Biography Born ''Wiktionary:circa, circa'' 1952, Harris is the son of a grocer and World War II veteran who served in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. ..., Australian businessman and philanthropist See also * Jeffrey Harris (other) {{hndis, Harris, Geoffrey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Harris (runner)
Geoffrey Harris (born January 30, 1987, in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian middle-distance runner. Harris qualified for the 2012 London Olympics in the 800 metres event with two Olympic standards and a first-place finish at the 2012 Canadian Olympics field & Track in Calgary. At the Olympics, he reached the semi-finals. Career highlights * 2nd, 2012 Olympic Games Preliminary Heats in a personal best 1:45.97 * 1st, 2012 National Championships, Calgary, Canada (Olympic Standard). * 10th, 2006 IAAF World Junior Championships The World Athletics U20 Championships is a biennial world championships for the sport of athletics organised by the World Athletics, contested by athletes in the under-20 athletics age category (19 years old or younger on 31 December in the yea ..., Beijing, China. * Best time 600m: 1:18.36, Montréal, 27/01/2007 * Best time 800m: 1:45.97, 2012 Olympic Games, London, 06/08/2012 References External links IAAF profile 1987 births Athletes (tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Harris (neuroendocrinologist)
Geoffrey Wingfield Harris (1913–1971) was a British physiologist and neuroendocrinology, neuroendocrinologist. Often considered the "father of neuroendocrinology",Raisman, G. (1997)"An urge to explain the incomprehensible: Geoffrey Harris and the discovery of the neural control of the pituitary gland." ''Annual Reviews of Neuroscience'', 20:533-56doi:10.1146/annurev.neuro.20.1.533/ref> he is best known for showing that the anterior pituitary is regulated by the hypothalamus via the hypophyseal portal system. His work established the principles for the 1977 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of hypothalamic hormones by Andrew Schally, Schally and Roger Guillemin, Guillemin. Education and career Harris received his undergraduate degree from University of Cambridge, Cambridge in 1936, and went on to attend medical training at St. Mary's Hospital in London until 1939.Sawin, C. T. (1998Geoffrey Harris and the Brain's Control of the Pituitary Gland. ''The Endocrinologist'', 8(2):117-122. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Harris
Geoff Harris (born ''Wiktionary:circa, ca''. 1952) is an Australian businessman and philanthropist. Biography Born ''Wiktionary:circa, circa'' 1952, Harris is the son of a grocer and World War II veteran who served in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. He was bullied at school as a teenager, and later dropped out. Harris is a co-founder of Flight Centre with Graham Turner (businessman), Graham Turner and Bill James in 1981–1982. He served as a company executive until 1998 and as a non-executive director until 2008. In 2013, he was its biggest shareholder. He was also an early investor in Boost Juice. In 2003, he acquired Top Deck Travel UK with five other investors. He served as the Vice President of the Hawthorn Football Club. Personal life Harris lives in Melbourne. He is interested in military history, and has visited war sites in Malaysia, Vietnam and France. Personal wealth In 2019, Harris' net worth was estimated to be A$851 million, listed on the ''The Australian Financ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |