Thomson may refer to:

Names

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

Thomson baronets There have been four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Thomson (see also Thompson baronets), one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and three in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The Thomson Baronetcy, of Duddingston in Edinburg ...

, four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Thomson

Businesses and organizations

SGS-Thomson Microelectronics STMicroelectronics N.V. commonly referred as ST or STMicro is a Dutch multinational corporation and technology company of French-Italian origin headquartered in Plan-les-Ouates near Geneva, Switzerland and listed on the French stock market. ST ...

, a electronics manufacturer * Various travel subsidiaries of

TUI Group TUI Group is a German leisure, travel and tourism company. TUI is an acronym for ''Touristik Union International'' ("Tourism Union International"). TUI AG was known as Preussag AG until 1997 when the company changed its activities from mining to ...

: **

Thomson Airways Thomson may refer to: Names * Thomson (surname), a list of people with this name and a description of its origin * Thomson baronets, four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Thomson Businesses and organizations * SGS-Thomson Mic ...

(now TUI Airways), a UK-based airline ** Thomson Cruises (now

Marella Cruises Marella Cruises (formerly Thomson Cruises) is a British cruise line operated by TUI UK, offering cruise holidays around Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia. History The company had initially entered the cruise market in 1973, but due to rising fue ...

), a UK-based cruise line ** Thomson Holidays (now

TUI UK TUI Group is a German leisure, travel and tourism company. TUI is an acronym for ''Touristik Union International'' ("Tourism Union International"). TUI AG was known as Preussag AG until 1997 when the company changed its activities from mining to ...

), a UK-based travel company ** Thomsonfly, a former UK airline, formerly Britannia Airways *

Thomson Directories Thomson Directories, more commonly referred to as Thomson Local, is a local business directory company based in Farnborough, Hampshire, England, and offers business listings both in print and online following the launch of ThomsonLocal.com in 2003 ...

, local business search company and publisher of: ** Thomson Local, the UK business directory * Thomson Multimedia, former name of Technicolor SA, a French multinational corporation *

Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Corporation ( ) is a Canadian multinational media conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where it is headquartered at the Bay Adelaide Centre. Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corpora ...

, Canadian media and information services company ** Thomson Corporation, former name of the company prior to its 2008 merger with Reuters **

Thomson Financial Thomson Financial was an arm of the Thomson Corporation, an information provider. When the Thomson Corporation merged with Reuters to form Thomson Reuters in April 2008, Thomson Financial was merged with the business of Reuters to form the Markets ...

, former business division of Thomson ** Thomson Healthcare, former healthcare division of Thomson ** Thomson Scientific, former research division of Thomson *

Technicolor SA Vantiva SA, formerly Technicolor SA, Thomson SARL, and Thomson Multimedia, is a French multinational corporation that provides creative services and technology products for the communication, media and entertainment industries. Vantiva's headq ...

, formerly known as Thomson SARL and Thomson Multimedia, a French electronics manufacturer and media services provider * Thomson-CSF, former name for the Thales Group *

Thomsons Online Benefits Darwin Technologies Ltd., known simply as Darwin (formerly Thomsons Online Benefits) is a global benefits management and employee engagement software company that also provides consultancy services related to reward, workplace pensions and employ ...

, a UK-based provider of employee benefit programmes *

L.H. Thomson L.H. Thomson is an American manufacturer of aerospace components and bicycle parts. It has a machine shop in Macon, Georgia. History The company was founded by Loronzo Harold Thomson (Ronnie) and his wife Margaret in 1968, as a small machine ...

, manufacturer of aircraft and bicycle parts

Places

Thomson (crater) Thomson is a lunar impact crater that is located within the Mare Ingenii on the far side of the Moon. Just to the northeast is the unusual merged crater formation of Van de Graaff. On the northwest rim of the mare is O'Day, and to the south-so ...

, a lunar impact crater in the Mare Ingenii on the far side of the Moon Australia * Thomson Dam * 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, a neighborhood in Singapore * Thomson Road, Singapore, a major trunk road ** Thomson MRT Line, a mass transit line United States * Thomson, Georgia * Thomson, Illinois ** Thomson Correctional Center *

Thomson, Minnesota Thomson was a city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States, located along the Saint Louis River. The population was 159 at the 2010 census. On November 5, 2013, a vote to authorize the consolidation of Thomson and nearby Carlton passed wit ...

Thomson Dam (Minnesota) Thomson Dam, also known as the Thomson Hydro Station or Thomson Water Project, is an embankment and concrete gravity dam on the Saint Louis River near the town of Thomson in northeastern Minnesota, United States. It consists of a 1600-foot (488 ...

* Thomson, New York

Science and technology

Joule–Thomson effect In thermodynamics, the Joule–Thomson effect (also known as the Joule–Kelvin effect or Kelvin–Joule effect) describes the temperature change of a ''real'' gas or liquid (as differentiated from an ideal gas) when it is forced through a valv ...

, temperature change of a fluid passing through a valve in a thermally insulated system *

thomson (unit) The thomson (symbol: Th) is a unit that has appeared infrequently in scientific literature relating to the field of mass spectrometry as a unit of mass-to-charge ratio. The unit was proposed by Cooks and Rockwood naming it in honour of J. J. Thomso ...

, a unit for mass-to-charge ratio, symbol: Th *Thomson structures, synonym for Widmanstätten patterns *Thomson, abbreviation used to indicate

Thomas Thomson Thomas Thomson may refer to: * Tom Thomson (1877–1917), Canadian painter * Thomas Thomson (apothecary) (died 1572), Scottish apothecary * Thomas Thomson (advocate) (1768–1852), Scottish lawyer * Thomas Thomson (botanist) (1817–1878), Scottis ...

when citing a botanical name *

Thomson cubic In geometry, the Thomson cubic of a triangle is the locus of centers of circumconics whose normals at the vertices are concurrent Concurrent means happening at the same time. Concurrency, concurrent, or concurrence may refer to: Law * Concur ...

, the locus of centers of circumconics of a triangle *

Thomson effect The thermoelectric effect is the direct conversion of temperature differences to electric voltage and vice versa via a thermocouple. A thermoelectric device creates a voltage when there is a different temperature on each side. Conversely, when ...

, the heating or cooling of a current-carrying conductor in a temperature gradient * Thomson's gazelle, a species of gazelle * Thomson MO5, MO6, TO7, TO8, microcomputers made by Thomson SA in the 1980s *

Thomson problem The objective of the Thomson problem is to determine the minimum electrostatic potential energy configuration of electrons constrained to the surface of a unit sphere that repel each other with a force given by Coulomb's law. The physicist J. J. ...

, * Thomson scattering, the elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a free charged particle

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