Thomson

Thomson may refer to:

Names

• Thomson (surname), includes a list of people with this name and a description of its origin

Science

• thomson (unit), a unit for mass-to-charge ratio, symbol: Th; named in honor of J. J. Thomson
• J. J. Thomson, British physicist and Nobel laureate credited with the discovery of electrons and isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer.
• Thomson effect, named after William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, which is the heating or cooling of a current-carrying conductor when a temperature gradient is present
• Joule–Thomson effect, named after James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, which explains the temperature change of a fluid when allowed to pass through a porous plug with the system kept thermally insulated
• Thomson's gazelle, a species of gazelle

Places

Australia

• Thomson River (Queensland)
• Thomson River (Victoria)
• Thomson, Victoria a suburb of Geelong

Canada

• David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute, a high school located in Toronto, Ontario

Singapore

• Thomson, Singapore
  • Thomson MRT Line, a mass transit line

United States

• Thomson, Georgia
• Thomson, Illinois
• Thomson, Minnesota

Business

• The Thomson Corporation, a Canadian-based information services company
  • Thomson Reuters, a media company created by The Thomson Corporation's purchase of Reuters on 17 April, 2008
• Thomson-CSF, former name for the company Thales Group
• Thomson Directories, local business search company and publisher of:
  • Thomson Local, the UK business directory
• Thomsons Online Benefits, a UK-based provider of employee benefit programmes
• Thomson SA, formerly known as Thomson Multimedia, a French electronics manufacturer and media services provider
  • Thomson MO5 and MO6, TO7, TO8 and TO9, microcomputers by Thomson SA in the 1980s
• Various businesses of TUI AG:
  • Thomson Holidays, a UK-based travel company founded by the Thomson Corporation in 1965; now a subsidiary of TUI UK
  • Thomsonfly, a former UK airline, part of TUI AG, formerly Britannia Airways
  • Thomson Airways, a UK airline formed from the merger of Thomsonfly and First Choice Airways
• L.H. Thomson, manufacturer of aircraft and bicycle parts

See also

• Thompson (disambiguation)
• Thomsen
• Thomason (disambiguation)

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