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Elizabeth Burns, Elizabeth Park or Mrs John Thomson [2] known as Betty Burns, was born in 1791 in Leith, Scotland. She was the illegitimate daughter of Robert Burns and Anna Park who was a barmaid at The Globe in Dumfries. [1] She married John Thomson in 1808 to become Elizabeth Thomson. [3]
Judith Jarvis Thomson (October 4, 1929 – November 20, 2020) was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. Her work ranges across a variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experiment titled the trolley problem and her writings on abortion.
Plaque commemorating J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron outside the old Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge Autochrome portrait by Georges Chevalier, 1923 Thomson c. 1920–1925 Thomson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) [ 24 ] [ 49 ] and appointed to the Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish ...
Thomson was born in Cambridge, England, the son of physicist and Nobel laureate J. J. Thomson and Rose Elisabeth Paget, daughter of George Edward Paget.Thomson went to The Perse School, Cambridge before going on to read mathematics and physics at Trinity College, Cambridge, until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when he was commissioned into the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment.
A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the right to life does not include, entail, or imply the right to use someone else's body to survive and that induced abortion is therefore morally ...
A child in Houston, Texas is dead after authorities say the 19-month-old girl was placed in the oven by the baby's older siblings while being left home alone by the mother.
O.J.'s oldest child is his daughter Arnelle, 55, whom he had with his first wife Marguerite. Arnelle was a witness in O.J.'s high-profile murder trial in 1995. In the years after the trial ...
Thomson was born in 1969 in Walkden, Worsley, Lancashire, [1] to Mary McAleer, who gave him up for adoption six weeks later. He was adopted from the Catholic Children's Rescue Society [2] by Andrew and Marita Thomson, a businessman and a bookseller from Didsbury. [3] He has one younger brother, Ben (born to his adoptive parents). [4]