Tom Muir, an editor of The Journal of Physiology (1992-99) and British Journal of Pharmacology (1978-84), was a Reader in Pharmacology at the University of Glasgow. After his initial PhD work on skeletal muscle relaxants in Glasgow with JJ Lewis, he worked predominantly on smooth muscle electrophysiology and autonomic transmission with JS Gillespie and David Pollock, working with Mollie Holman in Monash and collaborating with Joe Szurszewski at the Mayo Clinic. At the end of his career, he also worked with John McCarron in Glasgow.