John Nathan Cobb the preeminent fishery scientist of the Pacific Northwest for nearly 40 years. Thompson had offices in the College of Fisheries where, since 1925, he was Director of the International Fisheries Commission (now International Pacific Halibut Commission) charged with the management of, and research on, the Pacific halibut, "Hippoglossus stenolepis", fishery. A Ph.D. from Stanford University, Thompson was appointed Research Professor and Director of the new department on a part-time basis, as he remained Director of the International Fisheries Commission. He remained Director of the School until 1947 when he resigned to establish and head the UW's new Fisheries Research Institute.
The World Is Flat that is flat, but Thomas Friedman's 'brain' is flat". Some critics have pointed out that the book is written from an American perspective. Friedman's work history has been mostly with "The New York Times", and that may have influenced the way the book was written – some would have preferred a book written in a more "inclusive voice". Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has been critical of Friedman's book: Richard Florida expresses similar views in his 2005 "Atlantic" article "The World Is Spiky". John Gray, formerly a School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political