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Hugh Torrens

Historian of geology (born 1940) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Hugh Simon Torrens (born 1940) is a British historian of geology and paleontology, and Emeritus Professor of History of Science and Technology at Keele University.[1][2]

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Torrens received a bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Leicester.[2]

He was president of the Society for the History of Natural History from 2012 to 2015, when he was succeeded by Arthur MacGregor.[3]

He was awarded the Sue Tyler Friedman Medal by the Geological Society in 1991.[4]

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