Dr. Betty Wright Harris is an American chemist

Dr. Betty Wright Harris

born on 29 July 1940

Dr. Betty Wright Harris is an American chemist. She is known for her work on the chemistry of explosives completed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She patented a spot test for detecting 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene (TATB) in the field, which is used by the Federal Department of Homeland Security to screen for nitroaromatic explosives.[1][2]