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 Travel (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 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)
  • Thompson (surname)
  • Thomsen
  • Thomason (disambiguation)