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Thomson   /tˈɑmsən/   Listen
Thomson

noun
1.
United States composer who collaborated with Gertrude Stein (1896-1989).  Synonyms: Virgil Garnett Thomson, Virgil Thomson.
2.
United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937).  Synonym: Elihu Thomson.
3.
English physicist (son of Joseph John Thomson) who was a co-discoverer of the diffraction of electrons by crystals (1892-1975).  Synonyms: George Paget Thomson, Sir George Paget Thomson.
4.
English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940).  Synonyms: Joseph John Thomson, Sir Joseph John Thomson.



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... connexion with the Komos, already indicated by Wilamowitz and Dieterich (Herakles, pp. 98, ff.; Pulcinella, pp. 63, ff.), has been illuminatingly developed in an unpublished monograph by Mr. J.A.K. Thomson, of Aberdeen.] ...
— Alcestis • Euripides

... William Hedges, Sir John Lawrence Knight, and Alderman, Mr. Nathaniel Letton, Sir John Moore Knight, and Alderman, Samuel Moyer Esquire, Mr. John Morden, Mr. John Paige, Edward Rudge Esquire, Mr. Jeremy Sambrooke, Mr. William Sedgwick, Robert Thomson Esquire, Samuel Thomson Esquire, ...
— An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies • Robert Knox

... cursed carle was at his wonted trade, Still tempting heedless men into his snare, In witching wise, as I before have said; But when he saw, in goodly gear array'd, The grave majestic knight approaching nigh, His countenance fell."—THOMSON, Castle of Indolence. ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... What meaneth Thomson? He further calls the hue, "a roseate smile," and is reminded of Titian's pencil. By all which hints and expressions we conclude that the poet saw this "pleasing land of Drowsyhead" as through a coloured glass, subduing all the exciting colours of nature to a mellow ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various

... find an article on this subject in the Irish Ecclesiastical Journal for April, 1847; from which I learn that there was a previous article, by Dr. James Thomson, one of the agents of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in the Biblical Review, a London periodical publication. Dr. Thomson, if I understand the matter aright, professed to have found at Madrid the MSS., so long ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 • Various


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