Matthew Sydney Thomson

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Matthew Sydney Thomson (born November 7, 1894 in Earlsfield , Surrey , † April 26, 1969 ) was a British dermatologist .

Life

Thomson attended the Merchant Taylors' School in London, where he received medical training. He then studied at the University of Cambridge . During the First World War he worked in a hospital. After the war he went to King's College Hospital in London and specialized in internal medicine and dermatology. He became a senior dermatologist at King's College and has worked at other UK hospitals. In 1958 he retired.

Thomson published about sixty scientific papers on dermatology. He was especially known to the professional world for his work on congenital poikiloderma , published in 1936 - a skin disease that was later given the name Rothmund-Thomson syndrome .

In 1934 Thomson was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

literature

  • CE Newman: Matthew Sydney Thomson. Royal College of Physicians, accessed April 22, 2020 (English, published in Lancet and Brit. Med. J. (1969)).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Sydney Thomson: Poikiloderma Congenitale: Two Cases for Diagnosis . In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine . tape 29 , 1936, pp. 453–455 ( online [PDF; accessed April 29, 2020]).
  2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Thomson, Matthew Sydney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomson, M. Sydney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Earlsfield , Surrey
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1969