sub-fonds GB 0120 GC/31 - Parsons, Professor Thomas Richard, 1892-1961

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GB 0120 GC/31

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Parsons, Professor Thomas Richard, 1892-1961

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  • 1922-1959 (Creation)

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3 boxes

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1911-1914 Demonstrator in Zoology, Birkbeck College London

1914 B.Sc London

1914-1918 Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

1918 Awarded Gedge Prize for essay 'On the Reaction of the Blood in the Body'

1919 Michael Foster Studentship

1919-1925 Demonstrator in Physiology, University of Cambridge

1921-1922 Acting Professor of Physiology, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School

1923 Fundamentals of Biochemistry in Relation to Human Physiology

1925-1927 Assistant Professor for Medical Research (Biophysics), McGill University, Montreal

1927-1929 Working under Professor Krogh in Copenhagen

1929 Returns to teaching and supervising physiology in Cambridge

1930 The Materials of Life

1934 Lectures, Reading and Examinations

1939-1945 Civilian Lecturer to HM Forces

1948-1954 Professor of Physiology, University College of Ibadan, Nigeria

1954 Part-time Lecturer in Physiology, Regent Street Polytechnic and Chelsea College.

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GB 0120 GC/31 1922-1959 Sub-fonds 3 boxes Parsons , Thomas Richard , 1892-1961 , physiologist

1911-1914 Demonstrator in Zoology, Birkbeck College London

1914 B.Sc London

1914-1918 Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

1918 Awarded Gedge Prize for essay 'On the Reaction of the Blood in the Body'

1919 Michael Foster Studentship

1919-1925 Demonstrator in Physiology, University of Cambridge

1921-1922 Acting Professor of Physiology, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School

1923 Fundamentals of Biochemistry in Relation to Human Physiology

1925-1927 Assistant Professor for Medical Research (Biophysics), McGill University, Montreal

1927-1929 Working under Professor Krogh in Copenhagen

1929 Returns to teaching and supervising physiology in Cambridge

1930 The Materials of Life

1934 Lectures, Reading and Examinations

1939-1945 Civilian Lecturer to HM Forces

1948-1954 Professor of Physiology, University College of Ibadan, Nigeria

1954 Part-time Lecturer in Physiology, Regent Street Polytechnic and Chelsea College.

These papers were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by Professor Parsons' widow in 1980. A number of textbooks and other secondary material received at the same time was handed over to the Librarian.

Papers of Professor Thomas Richard Parsons, 1922-1959, including correspondence, lecture notes and memoranda, mainly 1920s-1930s.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Mar 2009. Physiology Biochemistry Wars (events) World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Parsons , Thomas Richard , 1892-1961 , physiologist

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These papers were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by Professor Parsons' widow in 1980. A number of textbooks and other secondary material received at the same time was handed over to the Librarian.

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Papers of Professor Thomas Richard Parsons, 1922-1959, including correspondence, lecture notes and memoranda, mainly 1920s-1930s.

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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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  • English

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  • Latin

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Wellcome Library

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General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

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