Thomson Synonyms

English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Joseph John Thomson
  2. sir joseph john thomson
English physicist (son of Joseph John Thomson) who was a co-discoverer of the diffraction of electrons by crystals (1892-1975)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. George Paget Thomson
  2. sir george paget thomson
United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Elihu Thomson
United States composer who collaborated with Gertrude Stein (1896-1989)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. virgil thomson
  2. Virgil Garnett Thomson

Thomson Sentence Examples

  • Thomson (Lord Kelvin) at a meeting of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow in 1854, because its greater flexibility renders it less likely to damage the insulating envelope during the manipulation of the cable.

  • In 1859 he began, in concert with Sir William Thomson (afterwards Lord Kelvin), to work on problems respecting the making and use of cables, and the importance of his researches on the resistance of gutta-percha was at once recognized.

  • James Thomson (" B.V.") speaks " of the restful rapture of the inviolate grave," and sings the praises of death and of oblivion.

  • Elihu Thomson blows on the spark balls with a powerful jet of air.

  • Thomson (1827), 313, quoting Stow.

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