Edward Debono, the academic and doctor who developed global fame for his thinking methods, died on Wednesday. He was 88. Debono, who held faculty appointments at Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard universities and served as professor at many others, was an authority on creative thinking with an interest in the mind and its method of organising information. A term he originated, lateral thinking, now forms part of the Oxford English Dictionary. RELATED STORIES Born in 1933 and educated at St Edward’s College, Debono graduated as a doctor from the University of Malta before studying physiology and psychology at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and a Phd at Cambridge.