Robert William Torrance: archives

Torrance, Robert, 1923-1999

Date:: 1950s-1990s

Reference:: PP/TOR

Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

This collection contains papers of Robert William Torrance (1923-1999) who was a respiratory physiologist. These largely consist of: correspondence, notebooks of experiments, material regarding conferences, reprints, photographs and slides.

Publication/Creation

1950s-1990s

Physical description

17 transfer boxes; 1 oversized item 304 digital files; 1.58 MB (1580000 bytes)

Contributors

Torrance, Robert, 1923-1999

Acquisition note

Acquisition date: 03/05/2002. Born digital material transferred to v drive. Droid export is in collections file and process log is in Archivematica: 21/09/2020.

Biographical note

Robert Torrance went to Queens College Oxford to read physiology and medicine in 1941. Shortly after his graduation he was asked to become the fellow and medical tutor at St. Johns College, Oxford which he did so in 1952, and he stayed at the college for the rest of his career as a respiratory physiologist. He was also lecturer of University Laboratory of Physiology at Oxford between 1952-1958. He retired as a emeritus fellow of the college in 1990.

Appraisal note

Digital material has been transferred from the original physical media to secure storage. The physical media has not been retained.

Terms of use

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