Harold E. Harrison (1908–1989) and Helen Coplan Harrison (1911–2004) were a husband-and-wife research team in pediatrics who individually and jointly published more than 175 research papers and one textbook on topics including pediatric metabolic disorders, parathyroid hormone and bone, vitamin D, renal and intestinal transport, nutrition, rickets, and lead poisoning. They were jointly the authors of Disorders of Calcium and Phosphate Metabolism in Childhood and Adolescence, a comprehensive medical reference published in 1979.

The Harold E. Harrison Medical Library is a part of the Johns Hopkins University Bayview Medical Campus.

Harold E. Harrison and Helen C. Harrison

Awards and honors

1938 E. Mead Johnson Award, awarded jointly

1942 E. Mead Johnson Award, awarded jointly

1961 Borden Award, to Harold E. Harrison

1980 American College of Nutrition Award to Harold E. Harrison

1983 John Howland Award, awarded jointly

References

Johns Hopkins University faculty

Johns Hopkins Hospital physicians

American pediatricians

Goucher College alumni

Married couples

Harold E. Harrison and Helen C. Harrison