Moray House, Holyrood Road, EH8 8AQ
On this building you will find a plaque dedicated to Sir Godfrey Thomson, a pioneer of research into human intelligence. Thompson worked on the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947, which measured the intelligence of most of the children born in Scotland in 1921 and 1936 respectively. The data collected was rediscovered in the late 1990s by Ian Deary and Lawrence Whalley. Together with new data from the now elderly participants in the original survey, it has formed the basis of an important research programme exploring the effects of aging on the brain.
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Sir Godfrey Thomson (1881–1955).
Plaque to Sir Godfrey Thomson on Thomson’s Land, University of Edinburgh
Plaque to Sir Godfrey Thompson in St John’s Street.
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