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. Torrens received a bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Leicester. He was president of the

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from 2012 to 2015, when he was succeeded by

Arthur MacGregor Arthur MacGregor is a British academic and author, "who largely invented the idea of the history of museums". MacGregor has spent most of his career at the Ashmolean Museum The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology () on Beaumont Street, Oxfo ...

. He was awarded the Sue Tyler Friedman Medal by the

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in 1991.

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Publications by H.S. Torrens 1964-2017
1940 births Living people Alumni of the University of Leicester Alumni of the University of Oxford Academics of Keele University British paleoanthropologists British geologists {{UK-geologist-stub