GB 0120 PP/RHT - Thompson, Professor Robert Henry Stewart

7 boxes

GB 0120 PP/RHT 1931-1996 Collection (fonds) 7 boxes Thompson , Robert Henry Stewart , 1912-1998 , biochemist

CBE, MA, DSc, DM, BCh, FRS, FRCP, FRCPath, FRS.

Biochemist; Professor of Chemical Pathology, Guy's Hospital Medical School, University of London, 1947-1965; Secretary-General International Union of Biochemistry 1955-1964; Director, Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London, 1965-1976; Wellcome Trust Trustee, 1963-1982, and Deputy Chairman, 1978-1982; Chairman Chemical Defence Advisory Board, Ministry of Defence, 1968-1975.

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Papers relating to Robert Thompson's research and career, 1931-1996, including personal and biographical; articles, reprints, reports, minutes, correspondence and photographs re development of British Anti-Lewisite during World War II, effects of nerve gases in warfare and civil strife, 1960s-1990s, and multiple sclerosis research; notes of lectures on biochemistry, 1952-1975; minutes, reports, etc, of International Union of Biochemistry, 1955-1980; papers re role in Royal Society and Wellcome Trust; biographical writings on R T Grant, FRS (1892-1989), Sir R A Peters, FRS (1889-1982), and G P Wright, (1898-1964).

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.

English

The catalogue to this collection has not yet been fully converted to electronic form: for detail, and to order material, see hard-copy list available in the Wellcome Library. Copies of the catalogue are available on request.

Collection level description available on-line on the Wellcome Library website

Scrapbook of degree certificates, early letters of appointment and bound copies of all RHST's reprints still held by family See also: A and M sources leaflet: War, Medicine and Health after 1918.

Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Jan 2009 Thompson , Robert Henry Stewart , 1912-1998 , biochemist Biochemistry Multiple sclerosis Wars (events) World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Military medicine Organizations International agencies Medical sciences Pathology Neurology Diseases Autoimmune diseases Wellcome Trust Royal Society International Union of Biochemistry Peters , Sir , Rudolph Albert , 1889-1982 , Knight , biochemist

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Papers relating to Robert Thompson's research and career, 1931-1996, including personal and biographical; articles, reprints, reports, minutes, correspondence and photographs re development of British Anti-Lewisite during World War II, effects of nerve gases in warfare and civil strife, 1960s-1990s, and multiple sclerosis research; notes of lectures on biochemistry, 1952-1975; minutes, reports, etc, of International Union of Biochemistry, 1955-1980; papers re role in Royal Society and Wellcome Trust; biographical writings on R T Grant, FRS (1892-1989), Sir R A Peters, FRS (1889-1982), and G P Wright, (1898-1964).

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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English

Scrapbook of degree certificates, early letters of appointment and bound copies of all RHST's reprints still held by family See also: A and M sources leaflet: War, Medicine and Health after 1918.

The catalogue to this collection has not yet been fully converted to electronic form: for detail, and to order material, see hard-copy list available in the Wellcome Library. Copies of the catalogue are available on request.

Collection level description available on-line on the Wellcome Library website

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English