Thomson

• 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==