title: Professor P. K. Thomas: clinician, investigator, editor and leader--a retrospective appreciation.
abstract: P. K. Thomas (1926-2008) occupied a prominent place in British and world neurology during the second half of the 20th century. Here, his lasting achievements as clinical neurologist, clinician scientist and experimentalist, editor of monographs and journals and leader of professional developments in the UK and elsewhere are assessed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. asbury@mail.med.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Arthur K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Asbury
authors.forename: Rosalind H M
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: King
authors.forename: Mary M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Reilly
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Dyck
authors.forename: Gerard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Said
authors.forename: Alastair
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Compston
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*