About Ian Maclaren Thompson
Lived 1896 – 1981 (aged 85). Ian Maclaren Thompson was a Canadian anatomist.
Prof Ian Maclaren Thompson FRSE FRSC (1896–1981) was a Newfoundland anatomist and medical author.
He was founder and first President of the Canadian Association of Anatomists in 1957 and also President of the Manitoba Museum.
Life
He was born at Harbour Grace on 13 September 1896, the son of W. H. Thompson a pharmacist.
He travelled to Scotland to study Medicine at Edinburgh University around 1913 but his studies were interrupted by the First World War during which he was wounded and Mentioned in Dispatches. He graduated BSc then MB ChB as a physician in 1920.
In 1952 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Couper Brash, Alexander Gibson, Francis Albert Eley Crew and John Kenneth.
He died in Winnipeg on Boxing Day, 26 December 1981. He is buried there in Brookside Cemetery.
Publications On the Comparative Anatomy of the Fifth Nerve (1925) Elements of Surface Anatomy (1925) A Method of Outlining Cutaneous Nerve Areas (1933) On the Arteries and Ducts of the Hepatic Pedicle (1933) Sensory Masking (1935)
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Ian Maclaren Thompson was born on 13 September 1896.
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Ian Maclaren Thompson died on 26 December 1981.
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