George Sutherland Thomson Explained

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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 5 December 2018. 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf. dead.
2. Guiding Queensland's Agriculture 1887-1987, Skerman, Fisher and Lloyd
3. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 5 December 2018. 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf. dead.