Conan remembered, “I was sitting next to him in a theater watching Peter Sellers in a Pink Panther movie, and that was the loudest I’ve ever heard anybody laugh.”
“My dad was frequently the most humorous person in the room.” His whole body would tremble as he laughed, and he would almost embrace himself.
Thomas was the first head of the infectious diseases department at what is now Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
He is well recognized for his study on antibiotic drug resistance. He was an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s for more than 60 years.
At the age of 90, he retired in 2019. Conan, who has two children with his wife Liza, Neve, 21, and Beckett, 19, said.
“My father was proof that that was wrong, even though science has said there is no such thing as perpetual motion.”
