Pochin, Sir Edward Eric, (1909-1990)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 PP/EEP
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Pochin, Sir Edward Eric, (1909-1990)
Date(s)	: 1940-1989
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 8 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Pochin | Sir | Edward Eric | 1909-1990 | Knight | physician, endocrinologist and radiobiologist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir Edward Eric 'Bill' Pochin K.B.E. (1909-1990) was a scientist of international stature: a physician, endocrinologist, radiobiologist , and an acclaimed authority on radiological protection. In his clinical career he was involved with the care of patients, teaching and research, and subsequently with development of protection techniques and the setting of standards and their application.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Sir Edward Eric Pochin, 1940-1989. The collection in no way reflects the entirety of Sir Edward's life's work; he may have discarded much himself when he retired officially. For the most part, the papers suggest that he had decided to keep only those of personal value, a relatively few relating to his clinical research on iodine isotopes and the thyroid gland, and those concerning his current working interest at the time of retirment. This was the 'Index of Harm': in the last ten or so years of his life he was primarily engaged in amassing vast amounts of data and statistics for the purposes of quantifying the risks and harm resulting from exposure to radiation as well as from occupational injuries. Also present are correspondence with Sir Thomas Lewis, 1940-1945, and records of research and treatments in the Medical Research Council Clinical Research Department at University College Hospital, London, 1947-1970s.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The collection is arranged into sections as follows:
A. Correspondence
B. Patients and treatments: B.1-5 General; B.6-13 Iodine therapies.
C. Radiation: C.1-10 Nuclear power plants; C.11-26 Population/occupational exposure to radiation; C.27-47 'Index of Harm'; C.48 'Fractiles'.
D. Risk Assessment: D.1-3 Royal Society Study Group on Assessment and Perception of Risk; D.4-6 'Risk' files.
E. Research: E.1-2 Animal experiments; E.3-12 Medical/clinical.

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.

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Archival Information

Archival history:

Reprints, publications and manuscripts of Sir Edward's published articles which originally formed part of this collection were disposed of by his son Charles Pochin.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The majority of these surviving papers of Sir Edward Pochin were donated unconditionally as a gift to the Wellcome Library by his son, Charles, and daughter, Sally, in February 1991. The accession formed part of the contents of three filing cabinets which Sir Edward had kept at his home. File A.3 was transferred from the Lewis papers in the Wellcome Library (PP/LEW, acc 56) which had been deposited by Pochin in 1977.

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Description Notes

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

Rules or conventions:
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.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jan 2009