Thom·son (t m s n), Elihu 1853-1937. British-born American electrical engineer and inventor who with Thomas Edison formed the General Electric Company (1892). His inventions include the street arc lamp. |
| Thomson, James 1700-1748. Scottish-born British poet whose works, most notably The Seasons (1726-1730) and The Castle of Indolence (1748), presaged romanticism. |
| Thomson, Sir Joseph John 1856-1940. British physicist. He won a 1906 Nobel Prize for investigating the electrical conductivity of gases. |
| Thomson, Virgil Garnett 1896-1989. American composer and music critic. His works include the opera Four Saints in Three Acts (1927), with a libretto by Gertrude Stein. |
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| Noun | 1. |  Thomson - United States composer who collaborated with Gertrude Stein (1896-1989) |
| 2. | Thomson - United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937) | |
| 3. | Thomson - English physicist (son of Joseph John Thomson) who was a co-discoverer of the diffraction of electrons by crystals (1892-1975) | |
| 4. | Thomson - English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940) |
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