Thompson, Margaret W. (Margaret Wilson), 1920-2014

found: NLM files, 7/22/85(hdg.: Thompson, Margaret W. (Margaret Wilson), 1920- ; usage: Margaret W. Thompson)

found: Information from 678 converted Dec. 16, 2014(Depts. of Paediatrics and Zoology, Univ. of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto)

found: Genetics in medicine, 1966:title page (James S. Thompson and Margaret W. Thompson)

found: The Canadian Encyclopedia. via WWW, June 22, 2020(Margaret Wilson Thompson; Margaret (Peggy) Anne Wilson Thompson, CM, human geneticist; born 7 January 1920 on the Isle of Man, England; died 3 November 2014 in Toronto, ON; Thompson contributed to human genetics through research on a variety of genetic disorders, particularly muscular dystrophy; she also cowrote Genetics in Medicine, a widely used text; she obtained a bachelor's degree in biology in 1943 from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph. D. in 1948 from the University of Toronto; she taught at the University of Western Ontario (1948-1950) and the University of Alberta (1950-1963); she founded a genetic counselling service at the University of Alberta Hospital in 1956; in 1963, Margaret Thompson joined the staff of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children; she practised there until 1988, establishing its genetic analysis and genetic counselling services; she was also part of the faculty of the University of Toronto from 1963 to 1985, where she taught genetics to medical students and supervised many graduate students; in addition to numerous scientific articles, Thompson co-wrote a widely used text, Genetics in Medicine (1966), with her husband, James Scott Thompson (1919-1982))