Thomas Thomson Paterson
| Thomas Thomson Paterson PhD MA BSc | |||||||
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| Born | 1909 | ||||||
| Died | 1994 | ||||||
| Residence |
Geology Dept., University of Edinburgh [A63] Trinity College Cambridge [1935] University Museum Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge; Trinity College, Cambridge [census] 6 Park Terrace, Cambridge [1949] | ||||||
| Occupation |
archaeologist geologist anthropologist museum work | ||||||
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Office Notes
RAI Council 1938-39 Member
House Notes
1932.11.22 proposed by V. Gordon Childe, seconded by J.C. Brash
spelt with 2 t's in lists
Notes From Elsewhere
Doctor Thomas Thomson Paterson (1909-1994), archaeologist, palaeontologist, geologist, glaciologist, geographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, sociologist, and world authority on administration,[1] was curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge from 1937 to 1948. He gained his Ph.D. at Cambridge and became a Fellow of Trinity College.[2]
In the 1930s Paterson participated in several Arctic expeditions,[3] during which time 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.[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.[2]
While at the University of Glasgow in the Department of Social and Economic Research he founded Methectics, now Methexis.[2] He then transferred to the University of Strathclyde and built its School of Administration to the largest in Europe.[2] He spent time researching in South Africa before moving to Canada.[2]
Publications
External Publications
Soan: the paleolithic of Pakistan, 1962 (with H.J.H. Drummond)
Morale in War and Work: An experiment in the management of men (1955). Max Parrish, London
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.
House Publications
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