Focus on George Thoma: Engineering and Re-engineering an NLM Career | NLM in Focus

Focus on George Thoma: Engineering and Re-engineering an NLM Career | NLM in Focus

Focus on George Thoma: Engineering and Re-engineering an NLM Career

09/14/2017 02:30 PM EDT

The call came from out of the blue. It was a normal, busy day at the General Electric office in Philadelphia. “He said something like, ‘I’m calling from the National Library of Medicine,’” recalled George Thoma, PhD, unsure of what he had heard. “The National Laboratory of what?” Thoma asked. “No, the National Library of…