Lewis E. Harris

1910- 2004) lived in Lincoln. Chemist, businessman, founded in 1933 the independent Harris Laboratories that conducted scientific research and testing for pharmaceutical, consumer, agri-chemical, and other industries worldwide, working to ensure the quality and safety of products and medications; led growth of firm from “one man” operation to one of the largest firms of its kind in the world, from some 60 employees in 1967 to some 500 employees and research facilities in the United States, China, Germany, and Northern Ireland by 1996, the year it was sold to a Toronto-based company and became MDS Harris. Consult Nebraska on the March, April 1967, pp. 2-4 and American Men & Women of Science, Vol 3 (1995-96) 633 and Lincoln Journal Star, August 21, 1996, pp. A-1, A-6 and January 19, 1999, pp. C-1, C-3 and April 16, 2000, pp. D-l, D-2 and obituary in Lincoln Journal Star, January 8, 2004, pp. A-1, A-2.

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