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{{Infobox medical personscientist
| name = Tilli Tansey
| honorific_prefix = Professor
| namebirth_name = Elizabeth = TilliMatilda Tansey
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire{{post-nominals|OBE]], [[|FMedSci]], [[Royal College of Physicians|HonFRCP]]FRCP|size=100%}}
| image = Tilli Tansey 2018.jpg
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| caption = = Tansey at the [[Worshipful Society of Apothecaries]]in 2018
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| birth_date birth_place =
| thesis1_title = The early scientific career of Sir Henry Dale FRS (1875–1968)
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| thesis1_url = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.294137
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| thesis1_year = 1990
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| thesis2_title = A histochemical study of the cephalopod brain
| nationality =▼
| thesis2_url = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.474559
| other_names = Elizabeth M.
| thesis2_year = 1978
| known_for = *History of modern medical sciences
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*[[witness seminar|Witness seminars]]
| known_for = [[Witness seminar]]s
| occupation = Professor of the History of Modern Medical Sciences
| fields = [[Neuroscience]]<br>[[History of science]]<br>[[History of medicine]]
| work_institutions = [[Queen Mary, University of London]]<br>[[University College London]]
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| website = {{URL|1=https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=EMTTA57}}
| education = [[University of Sheffield]]
| alma_mater = {{Nowrap|[[University of Sheffield]]<br> [[University of London]]}}
| module = {{Listen| embed=yes |filename = Tilli Tansey voice.ogg |title = Tansey's voice |type = speech |description = recorded June 2017}}
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Professor '''Elizabeth M. TanseyMatilda''' [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]], [[FMedSci]], [[Royal College of Physicians|HonFRCP]], known as "'''Tilli'''," '''Tansey''' is a British neurochemist who is an [[Emeritus|Emerita]] Professor of the [[Historian (medical)|Historyhistory of Modern Medical Sciencesmedicine]] and former [[neurochemist]], best known for her role in the [[Wellcome Trust|Wellcome Trust]]'s]] [[witness seminar|Witness seminars]]s. She previously{{when|date=June 2019}} worked at [[Queen Mary, University of London]] (QMUL).<ref name="Academy">{{citationCite web|url=https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-tilli-tansey|title=Professor Tilli Tansey |publisher= The Academy of Medical Sciences|website=acmedsci.ac.uk|access-date=20 September required2018}}</ref>
 
==Education==
==Witness seminars==
Tansey was educated at the [[University of Sheffield]] where she was awarded a [[PhD]] in 1978<ref name=firstPhD>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=Sheffield University|url=https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/36868848?style=html|title=A histochemical study of the cephalopod brain|first= Elizabeth M.|last=Tansey|date=1978|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.474559}}|website=copac.jisc.ac.uk|oclc=500576270}}</ref> for [[histochemical]] studies of the brain in [[cephalopod]]s. After switching fields from neuroscience<ref name="TanseyArbuthnott1983">{{cite journal|last1=Tansey|first1=Elizabeth M.|last2=Arbuthnott|first2=Gordon W.|last3=Fink|first3=George|last4=Whale|first4=Derek|title=Oestradiol-17β Increases the Firing Rate of Antidromically Identified Neurones of the Rat Neostriatum|journal=Neuroendocrinology|volume=37|issue=2|year=1983|pages=106–110|issn=0028-3835|doi=10.1159/000123527|pmid=6684218}}</ref> to the history of science, she was awarded a second [[PhD]] in the [[history of science]] for her research on the early career of the nobel laureate [[Henry Hallett Dale]].<ref name=secondphd>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of London|url=http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/165642/|title=The early scientific career of Sir Henry Dale FRS (1875-1968)|first= Elizabeth M.|author-link=Tilli Tansey|last=Tansey|date=1990|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.294137}}|website=ucl.ac.uk|oclc=556469190}}</ref>
Between 2012 and 2017, she was head of the [[History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group]], on a five-year research project funded by the Wellcome Trust titled ''The Makers of Modern Biomedicine: Testimonies and Legacy'', to record oral testimonies from those who have contributed significantly to modern medical sciences.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/hss/62665.html|title=Project to reveal hidden pioneers of modern medicine|last=|first=|date=26 January 2012|website=|publisher=Queen Mary, University of London|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=20 September 2018}}</ref>▼
 
==Career and research==
Tansey’s Witness Seminar series, held at the Wellcome Trust Centre, had the aim of bringing together medical professionals, scientists and technicians in group discussions, with the purpose of learning about significant periods in the history recent medicine.<ref name="DoelSöderqvist2006">{{cite book|author1=Ronald E. Doel|author2=Thomas Söderqvist|title=The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine: Writing Recent Science|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QIaCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA274&dq=tilli+tansey+witness+seminars&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwighszIjcXdAhXOqIsKHQZXAlMQ6AEITDAI#v=snippet&q=tansey&f=false|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-27294-0|page=9|chapter=1. Introduction}}</ref><ref name=Wellcome21years>{{Cite web|url=https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/history-modern-biomedicine-research-group-celebrates-21-years-innovation|title=History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group celebrates 21 years of innovation {{!}} Wellcome|last=|first=|date=|website=wellcome.ac.uk|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=18 September 2018}}</ref><ref name="HOBS">{{Cite web|url=http://www.histmodbiomed.org/article/what-is-a-witness-seminar.html|title=What is a Witness Seminar {{!}} The History of Modern Biomedicine|last=|first=|date=|website=www.histmodbiomed.org|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=18 September 2018}}</ref>▼
▲Between 2012 and 2017, she was head of the [[History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group]], on a five-year research project funded by the Wellcome Trust titled ''The Makers of Modern Biomedicine: Testimonies and Legacy'', to record oral testimonies from those who have contributed significantly to modern medical sciences.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/hss/62665.html|title=Project to reveal hidden pioneers of modern medicine|last=|first=|date=26 January 2012|website=|publisher=Queen Mary, University of London|archiveaccess-urldate=20 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://blog.wellcome.ac.uk/2014/09/24/21-dateyears-wellcome-witness/|title=Reality behind research: 21 years of oral history with Wellcome Witness (2014)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|dead-url=http://www.histmodbiomed.org/article/wellcome-witnesses-volumes.html|accessdatetitle=20Wellcome SeptemberWitnesses 2018Volumes - The History of Modern Biomedicine|website=histmodbiomed.org}}</ref>
 
▲Tansey’sTansey's Witness Seminar series, held at the Wellcome Trust Centre, had the aim of bringing together medical professionals, scientists and technicians in group discussions, with the purpose of learning about significant periods in the history recent medicine.<ref name="DoelSöderqvist2006">{{cite book|author1=Ronald E. Doel|author2=Thomas Söderqvist|title=The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine: Writing Recent Science|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QIaCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA274&dq=tilli+tansey+witness+seminars&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwighszIjcXdAhXOqIsKHQZXAlMQ6AEITDAI#v=snippet&q=tansey&f=false|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-27294-0|page=9|chapter=1. Introduction}}</ref><ref name=Wellcome21years>{{Cite web|url=https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/history-modern-biomedicine-research-group-celebrates-21-years-innovation|title=History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group celebrates 21 years of innovation {{!}} Wellcome|last=|first=|date=|website=wellcome.ac.uk|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=18 September 2018}}</ref><ref name="HOBS">{{Cite web|url=http://www.histmodbiomed.org/article/what-is-a-witness-seminar.html|title=What is a Witness Seminar {{!}} The History of Modern Biomedicine|last=|first=|date=|website=www.histmodbiomed.org|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=18 September 2018}}</ref> Topics covered have included [[oral contraceptives]], [[genetic testing]], and post-penicillin antibiotics.<ref name="DoelSöderqvist2006"/>
==Awards and honours==▼
Tansey is an Honorary Member of the [[Physiological Society]].<ref name="PhySoc-CHM">{{cite web|url=http://www.physoc.org/current-honorary-members|title=Current Honorary Members|publisher=[[Physiological Society]]|accessdate=24 May 2017}}</ref> In 2015, at the centenary of Women’s membership of the Physiological Society, Tansey received the Paton prize and presented her prize lecture entitled "Maude, Nettie, Ghetel and George", a study of some women married to early nineteenth century Physiological Society members.<ref name="QMUL2015">{{Cite web|url=https://www.qmul.ac.uk/history/news-and-events/news/2015/items/professor-tilli-tansey-awarded-the-paton-prize.html|title=Professor Tilli Tansey awarded the Paton Prize - School of History|last=|first=|date=|website=www.qmul.ac.uk|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=20 September 2018}}</ref><ref name="L+P">{{cite web |url=http://www.physoc.org/sites/default/files/page/Lectures%20and%20Prizes%20to%202017_2.pdf |title=Lectures and Prizes |last= |first= |date=2017 |publisher=The Physiological Society |access-date=|accessdate=2 May 2017}}</ref> ▼
 
===Selected publications===▼
In 2017 she was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Medicine]],<ref name="RSM">{{cite web|url=https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/events-listing/2016-2017/groups/executive-office/13h03-honorary-fellowship-ceremony-and-inauguration-of-new-president.aspx|title=Honorary Fellowship Ceremony and inauguration of new President|last=|first=|date=|year=2017|website=|publisher=[[Royal Society of Medicine]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=20 September 2018}}</ref>▼
* She co-edited a book with [[Susan Wray]] celebrating one hundred years of women physiologists.<ref name=wips>{{Cite book|publisher=The Physiological Society|year=2015|title=Women physiologists : centenary celebrations and beyond|isbn=9780993341007|oclc=922032986|editor1-first=Susan|editor1-last=Wray|editor2-first=Elizabeth|editor2-last=Tansey|location=London|url=https://static.physoc.org/app/uploads/2019/06/19095724/Women_physiologists_PRINT_FINAL.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.physoc.org/explore-physiology/history/historicalhighlights/women-in-physiology/|title=Women in physiology}}</ref><ref name=QMUL2015/>
*''The History of Toxicology: the Long and Short of it''<ref name="Tansey2016">{{cite journal|last1=Tansey|first1=Tilli|title=The History of Toxicology: the Long and Short of it|journal=Human & Experimental Toxicology|volume=12|issue=6|year=1993|pages=459–461|issn=0960-3271|doi=10.1177/096032719301200601|pmid=7904460|doi-access=free}}</ref>
*''Rudolf Magnus; Physiologist and Pharmacologist (1873–1927): A Biography''<ref name="Tansey2002">{{cite journal|last1=Tansey|first1=Tilli|title=Rudolf Magnus; Physiologist and Pharmacologist (1873–1927): A Biography|journal=Endeavour|volume=26|issue=3|year=2002|pages=118|issn=0160-9327|doi=10.1016/S0160-9327(02)01438-2}}</ref> concerning [[Rudolf Magnus]]
 
▲===Awards and honours===
▲==Selected publications==
▲Tansey is an Honoraryhonorary Membermember of the [[The Physiological Society]].<ref name="PhySoc-CHM">{{cite web|url=http://www.physoc.org/current-honorary-members|title=Current Honorary Members|publisher=[[Physiological Society]]|accessdateaccess-date=24 May 2017}}</ref> In 2015, at the centenary of Women’swomen's membership of the Physiological Society, Tansey received the Paton prize and presented her prize lecture entitled "''Maude, Nettie, Ghetel and George"'', a study of some women married to early nineteenth century Physiological Society members.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gVYTSWrI8E|title=Welcome and Paton Prize Lecture|last=The Physiological Society|date=16 February 2016|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref name="QMUL2015">{{Cite web|url=https://www.qmul.ac.uk/history/news-and-events/news/2015/items/professor-tilli-tansey-awarded-the-paton-prize.html|title=Professor Tilli Tansey awarded the Paton Prize - School of History|last=|first=|date=|website=www.qmul.ac.uk|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=20 September 2018}}</ref><ref name="L+P">{{cite web |url=http://www.physoc.org/sites/default/files/page/Lectures%20and%20Prizes%20to%202017_2.pdf |title=Lectures and Prizes |last= |first= |date=2017 |publisher=The Physiological Society |access-date=|accessdate=2 May 2017}}</ref>
She co-edited a book with Professor Sue Wray, celebrating one hundred years of women physiologists.<ref name=QMUL2015/>
 
*[http://www.academia.edu/5120669/The_History_of_Toxicology_the_Long_and_Short_of_it "The History of Toxicology: the Long and Short of it"], ''Human & Experimental Toxicology'', 1993.
▲In 2017 she was appointedelected an Honoraryhonorary Fellowfellow of the [[Royal Society of Medicine]],.<ref name="RSM">{{cite web|url=https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/events-listing/2016-2017/groups/executive-office/13h03-honorary-fellowship-ceremony-and-inauguration-of-new-president.aspx|title=Honorary Fellowship Ceremony and inauguration of new President|last=|first=|date=|year=2017|website=|publisher=[[Royal Society of Medicine]]|archive-url=|archiveaccess-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=20 September 2018}}</ref>
*[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250740465_Rudolf_Magnus_Physiologist_and_Pharmacologist_1873-1927_"A_Biography Rudolf Magnus; Physiologist and Pharmacologist (1873–1927): A Biography"], Article in ''Endeavour'' 26(3):118-118 · September 2002, {{DOI|10.1016/S0160-9327(02)01438-2}}.
 
== References ==
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* {{commons category -inline|Tilli Tansey}}▼
==External links==
 
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== Further reading ==
* [http://www.histmodbiomed.org/article/wellcome-witnesses-volumes Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine volumes]
 
* {{Cite Q|Q29581782}}
 
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