1. Sir Godfrey Hilton Thomson FRSE DCL was an English educational psychologist known as a critical pioneer in intelligence research.
14 Facts About Godfrey Thomson
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Godfrey Thomson was born in Carlisle, Cumbria on 27 March 1881.
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Godfrey Thomson was the son of Charles Thomson and his wife, Jane Hilton.
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Godfrey Thomson's parents separated when he was a young boy, and his mother moved the two of them to her native town of Felling located in Tyneside.
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Godfrey Thomson was then awarded a scholarship to Rutherford College of Technology.
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Godfrey Thomson proceeded to study at Armstrong College in Newcastle and then moved on to study at the University of Strasbourg under Professor Ferdinand Braun, working on Hertzian waves.
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Godfrey Thomson worked at Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne from 1906 to 1925, before moving to the University of Edinburgh from 1925 until 1951.
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Godfrey Thomson's research began in psychophysics, but he became best known for his criticism of Spearman's general factor in intelligence.
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Additionally, Thomson was active in work on the relationship between intelligence and fertility, conducting some of the first nationally representative sample research, which concluded that this relationship was negative.
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Godfrey Thomson's proposers were Ralph Allan Sampson, Alexander Morgan, Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker and Norman Kemp Smith.
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Godfrey Thomson served as the Society's vice president from 1954 to 1955.
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Godfrey Thomson was president of the British Psychological Society from 1945 to 1946.
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Godfrey Thomson was knighted by King George VI in 1949.
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Godfrey Thomson lived his later years at 5 Ravelston Dykes in western Edinburgh.