About Thomas L. Johnston
Lived 1927 – 2009 (aged 82). Thomas L. Johnston was an economist.
Thomas Lothian Johnston FRSE (9 March 1927 in Whitburn, West Lothian – 2009 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish economist. He was professor of Economics at Heriot-Watt University in 1966–1976. He was the President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1993–1996. In 1985 Johnston was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Johnston was the Principal of Heriot-Watt University from 1981 to 1988 and received an Honorary Doctorate from the university in 1989.
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British economist (1927–2009)
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Thomas L. Johnston was born on 9 March 1927.
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Thomas L. Johnston died on 25 March 2009.
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Thomas L. Johnston was an economist.
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