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'''Jeffrey Barry Harborne''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]]<ref name="frs">{{Cite journal | last1 = Prebble | first1 = J. N. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2010.0012 | title = Jeffrey Barry Harborne. 1 September 1928 -- 21 July 2002 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 56 | pages = 131 | year = 2010
==Education==
Harborne was educated at
==Research==
Between 1953 and 1955 he worked as a postdoc with Professor Theodore Albert Geissman in the [[Natural phenol|phenolic]] [[plant pigment]]s, including anthocyanins.{{fact|date=March 2017}} The identification of these substances, he made use of UV / VIS spectroscopy.
Between 1965 and 1968 Harborne worked as a research assistant at the [[University of Liverpool]]. After this, he worked with
Harborne investigated the role of flavonoids in interactions between plants and insects. He also investigated the relationship between [[anthocyanins]]<ref>{{Cite journal
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}}</ref> and the ecology of pollination. He also studied the role of phytoalexins in members of the Fabaceae family (Leguminosae), the rose family (Rosaceae) and the display of flowers family (Umbelliferae). He has published on chemotaxonomy as in his research articles on the prevention of anthocyanins, flavones and auron in the primrose family (Primulaceae) in snapdragons (Antirrhinum) and a number of other plants. He also published on isoflavones and chemical ecology.
In his book,
From 1972 Prof. Harborne was the Executive Editor of the [[Phytochemistry (journal)|journal Phytochemistry]]. Between 1986 and 1999 he was chief editor of this prestigious journal. He was the founder of the magazine Analysis Phytochemicals and he was editor of Methods in Plant Biochemistry.
Harborne had a number of awards during his lifetime. In 1985 he received the
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* Visiting Professor, [[University of California]], 1977
He was editor-in-chief of the journal Phytochemistry,
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==Personal life==
His niece, Katharine Harborne, studied Horticultural Botany at the University of Reading from
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