Alan Tomlinson appointed to Chair in Optometry and Vision Science at Glasgow Polytechnic.

This article focuses on Alan Tomlinson, optometrists, who was appointed chair at the department of the optometry and vision science at Glasgow Polytechnic in Scotland. Tomlinson comes to the department with a wide experience of optometry as a practitioner, academic and industrial scientist. After obtaining the Diploma in Optometry from the Bradford Institute of Technology in 1965, in England, he spent a period in full time clinical practice. He returned to the University of Bradford, England, to become the first post-graduate student in the School of Ophthalmic Optics in England.