Thomson

Thomson may refer to:

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

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.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907), British physicist who proposed the absolute scale of temperature in thermodynamics.
Thomson effect, named after William Thomson, 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
Thomson structures, the same as Widmanstätten figures

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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