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HARRISON, Ross Granville (1870 – 1959)

HARRISON, Ross Granville (1870 – 1959)

1870 – 1959

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Jeanne E. Bennett · U.S. National Library of Medicine resource.nlm.nih.gov · Public domain

1907 CE

#521

Observations on the living developing nerve fiber.

Harrison demonstrated the development of nerve fibres by independent growth from cells outside the organism.

1910 CE

#558

The outgrowth of the nerve fibre as a mode of protoplasmic movement.

Tissue culture was made possible by Harrison’s proof of the outgrowth of nerve-fibers from ganglion cells.