John Alexander Thomson

John Thomson (widely known as JAT) graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1956. He saw national service in Germany and Malaya, then trained in endocrinology at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in the 1960s, where he contributed to the early stages of the development of nuclear medicine. To complete his academic training and credentials in endocrinology, John and his family spent a year’s sabbatical at Harvard University in Boston on a US Public Health Service fellowship. He studied the biochemistry of thyroglobulin with Irving Goldberg. John returned to Glasgow in 1967 and in 1968 was appointed senior lecturer with special responsibility …