Thomson

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 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

• 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

• Thomson, Georgia
• Thomson, Illinois
  • Thomson Correctional Center
• Thomson, Minnesota
  • Thomson Dam (Minnesota)
• Thomson, New York

Science and technology

• 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

See also

• Thomson Reservoir (disambiguation)
• Thompson (disambiguation)
• Thomsen
• Thomason (disambiguation)