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Sir Joseph John Thomson (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.
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]
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.
Thomas John "Tom" Thomson was born on August 5, 1877, in Claremont, Ontario, [8] the sixth of John and Margaret Thomson's ten children. [9] He was raised in Leith, Ontario, near Owen Sound, in the municipality of Meaford. [10] Thomson and his siblings enjoyed both drawing and painting, although he did not immediately display any major talents. [9]
A copper plaque by Duddingston Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland.The Kirk is situated below Arthur's Seat and next to Duddingston Loch. "Jock Tamson's bairns" is a Scots (and Northumbrian English) dialect version of "Jack (John) Thomson's children" but both Jock and Tamson in this context take on the connotation of Everyman.
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The French surname Thomson is first documented in Burgundy and is the shortened form for Thom[as]son, Thom[es]son. Variations include Thomassin, Thomason, Thomsson, Thomesson, Thomeson, and others. Thomson is uncommon as a given name. [1] [2] [3] Thomson is a surname.Notable people with the name include: Adam Thomson (disambiguation)