Vernon Harrison

Vernon George Wentworth Harrison ( born March 15, 1912 in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England; † 14 October 2001) was a British physicist and forgery expert, president of the Royal Photographic Society and a member of the Society for Psychical Research. Part-time employed Harrison with paranormal phenomena.

Life

Harrison attended Bishop Vesey 's Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield and a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham. 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 resources management. In 1967, he joined as a Research Manager at De La Rue, a British company, the bank notes, stamps, cards and other types of security documents manufactures. Part of his work was in the range of increase document security and detect forgeries. From 1974 to 1976 he was president of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.

After his retirement in 1977, he started his own business as an examiner of questioned documents and was involved as a forgery expert in court. He also dealt with paranormal phenomena. Together with other members of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR ) founded Harrison 1981, the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena ( Assap ), a foundation that investigates paranormal phenomena such as ghosts and crop circles. In 1984 he published in the Journal of the SPR a critique to a 1884 instituted by the SPR report on the occultist Blavatsky; this so-called Hodgson Report is disabled and does not prove that Blavatsky's Mahatma Letters were forged.

Harrison was a big 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 at 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 the year 1885. Theosophical Publishing House, Hundsangen 1998, ISBN 3-930623-21-8. Full text of the English version at the Theosophical University Press Online Edition accessed, February 4, 2014
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