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Historian of geology
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Hugh Simon Torrens
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20 November 1940
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Bachelor of Arts
University of Oxford
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Leicester
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Biography
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 Society for the History of Natural History from 2012 to 2015, when he was succeeded by Arthur MacGregor.
He was awarded the Sue Tyler Friedman Medal by the Geological Society in 1991.