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, a electronics manufacturer * Various travel subsidiaries of TUI Group: ** Thomson Airways (now TUI Airways), a UK-based airline ** Thomson Cruises (now Marella Cruises), 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, 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, 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, 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 Greenwich is a town in the southwestern part of Washington County, New York, United States. The town is located on the western border of the county. The population was 4,896 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statist ...

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 when citing a botanical name * Thomson cubic, 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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