tonythorne

Tony Thorne MBE is an Englishman, born and technically educated in London, England, but now living in Austria and, in the winters when he can, in the warmer (Spanish) Canary Island of Tenerife. He originally qualified as a Chartered Design Engineer and subsequently created a well-known British company (now American owned) specialising in Applied Physics products. For developments in the field of low temperature (cryo)surgery instrumentation, and very high temperature processing furnaces, the Queen awarded him an MBE. Later he emigrated, to Switzerland, where he created (and became CEO of) the European Division of an American Corporation specialising in medical laboratory, and computer-related, products. After many subsequent business adventures, he is now a part-time author of quirky speculative fiction. Earlier in life too he wrote and occasionally sold science-fiction and humorous stories, and was a spare time lecturer for the British Interplanetary Society. He has also written papers for several technical publications, and has held patents, in such varied fields as nuclear protection equipment, very high temperature furnaces and microbiological analysis equipment.