George Sutherland Thomson

George Sutherland Thomson FRSE FCS (1871โ€“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)

References

  1. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783โ€“2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
  2. Guiding Queensland's Agriculture 1887-1987, Skerman, Fisher and Lloyd
  3. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783โ€“2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.


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