George Sutherland Thomson
Scottish biochemist (1871–1958)
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George Sutherland Thomson FRSE FCS (1871–1958) was a 20th-century Scottish biochemist and scientific author, and an expert in the dairy industry.
Life
He was born in Scotland in 1871.
In 1903 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Robert Patrick Wright, George Alexander Gibson, James Blyth and Ralph Stockman.[1]
In March 1904 he was appointed Government Dairy Expert to Queensland in Australia. He became Dairy Commissioner for South Australia.[2]
He died on 29 June 1958.[3]
Publications
- The Dairying Industry (1907)
- British Colonial Dairying for School, Farm and Factory (1913)
- Experiments in the Hand-Feeding of Cows
- Grading Dairy Produce (1925)
- Butter and Cheese (1925)
- Testing Milk and its Products (1926)
- Milk and Cream Testing
- Dairying: Paying for Fat in Milk and Cream (1939)
