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Thomas Thomson Paterson (29 September 1909 – 9 April 1994) was a Scottish archaeologist, palaeontologist, geologist, glaciologist, geographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, sociologist, and world authority on administration.[1] He was curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge from 1937 to 1948.
Thomas Thompson Paterson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 29 September 1909 |
| Died | 9 April 1994 (aged 84) |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Years active | 1930s–? |
| Children | 2 |
Paterson was born in Buckhaven in Fife on 29 September 1909, and was educated at Buckhaven High School. He studied science at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a BSc.[2] He then studied for a PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, one of only a handful of research students there at the time, and became a Fellow of the college upon receiving his degree.[3][4] Alec Cairncross, a fellow Scot who first knew Paterson whilst an economics student at Trinity, remembered him as "always bubbling over with ideas" and combining "entertainment and erudition".[4]
In 1938, he married Elna Johanne Hygen. He had two children, Dr Erik Paterson and Kirsty Paterson.
In the 1930s, Paterson participated in several Arctic expeditions,[5] during which time he collected many string figures, leading to his 1949 article, "Eskimo String Figures and Their Origin," Acta Arctica 3:1-98. He also participated in expeditions to East Africa, India, Greenland and Northern Canada.[3]
In 1937, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Thomas James Jehu, Gordon Childe, James Pickering Kendall, and Thomas Matthew Finlay.[2]
A trouble-shooter for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, after which he studied industrial relations in the British National Coal Board in detail.[3]
While at the University of Glasgow in the Department of Social and Economic Research he founded Methectics, now Methexis.[3] He then transferred to the University of Strathclyde and built its School of Administration to the largest in Europe.[3] He spent time researching in South Africa before moving to Canada.[3]
He died on 9 April 1994 at Lions Gate Hospital in Vancouver in Canada.[2]
- Morale in War and Work: An experiment in the management of men (1955). Max Parrish, London.
- Glasgow Limited: a case-study in industrial war and peace (1960). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Management Theory (1966). Business Publications Limited, London.
- Job Evaluation: Volume 1 - A New Method (1972). Business Books Limited, London.
- Job Evaluation: Volume 2 - A Manual for the Paterson Method (1972). Business Books Limited, London.
- Paterson, Dr. E. T. (1996). "Thomas Thomson Paterson (obit.)", Yearbook of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1289.[1]
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