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Barcroft, Sir Joseph (1872-1947)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 807

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Barcroft, Sir Joseph (1872-1947)

Date(s): 1921-1922

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Barcroft | Sir | Joseph | 1872-1947 | Knight | physiologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1872; educated King's College, Cambridge, 1893-1897; research at Cambridge Physiological Laboratory, 1897-; lecturer at King's College, Cambridge, 1899; junior demonstrator in the physiological laboratory, 1904; senior demonstrator, 1907; fellow of the Royal Society, 1910; assistant tutor King's College, Cambridge, 1910; expedition to Tenerife, 1910; expedition to Monte Rosa, 1911; CBE, 1918; reader King's College, Cambridge, 1919; high-altitude expedition to Cerro de Pasco in Peru, in order to study pulmonary gas exchange, blood biochemistry, and several other topics, 1921-1922; professor of physiology at Cambridge, 1925; Copley medal of the Royal Society, 1943; died, 1947.

Publications: The Respiratory Function of the Blood (1914, 2nd edition, 1925).

CONTENT

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Letters from the Peruvian Andes, 1921-1922, by Sir Joseph Barcroft.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Open

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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

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Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society 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: Feb 2009.


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Personal names
Barcroft | Sir | Joseph | 1872-1947 | Knight | physiologist

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Peru | South America