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Robson, Professor John Michael


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/43

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Robson, Professor John Michael

Date(s): 1940s-1975

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Robson | John Michael | 1900-1982 | pharmacologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Professor Robson lectured in pharmacology at Edinburgh, and in 1946 was appointed reader at Guy's Hospital Medical School. In 1950 he became Professor of Pharmacology at Guy's, where his research was primarily into endochrinology, reproductive physiology and pharmacology. With C A Keele and R S Stacey, he wrote Recent Advances in Pharmacology (1950).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of John Michael Robson on pharmacology, endocrinology and reproductive physiology, 1940s, 1967-1975; incomplete draft history of the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh, [post 1945].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

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

Conditions governing reproduction:

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These papers were given to the Wellcome Library by Professor M Ginsberg of the Department of Pharmacology, Chelsea College, in May 1982.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Animals | Zoology
Endocrinology | Medical sciences
History of medicine | History
Veterinary medicine | Medical sciences
Family planning
Genetics

Personal names
Robson | John Michael | 1900-1982 | pharmacologist

Corporate names
Institute of Animal Genetics

Places