Thomson
Thomson may refer to:
Names
[edit]- 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
[edit]- SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, an 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), 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, former business division of Thomson
- Thomson Healthcare, former healthcare division of Thomson
- Thomson Scientific, former research division of Thomson
- Thomson Newspapers, former newspaper division of Thomson, sold in 2000 to various firms including Gannett, CNHI, and Media General
- 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, a UK-based provider of employee benefit programmes
- L.H. Thomson, manufacturer of aircraft and bicycle parts
Places
[edit]- Thomson (crater), 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–East Coast MRT line, a mass rapid transit line
United States
Science and technology
[edit]- Joule–Thomson effect, temperature change of a fluid passing through a valve in a thermally insulated system
- thomson (unit), 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 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,
- Thomson scattering, the elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a free charged particle