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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 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]
The motif-index and the ATU indices are regarded as standard tools in the study of folklore. For example, folklorist Mary Beth Stein said that, "Together with Thompson's six-volume Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, with which it is cross-indexed, The Types of Folktale constitutes the most important reference work and research tool for comparative folk-tale analysis. [1]
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.
Hugh Thomson RI (1 June 1860 – 7 May 1920) was an Irish illustrator. [1] He is best known for his pen-and-ink illustrations of works by authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and J. M. Barrie. Thomson inaugurated the Cranford School of illustration with the publication of the 1891 Macmillan reissue of Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford.
Loch-an-Eilean, Rothiemurchus, Inverness-shire, 1835, Tate Gallery Thomson sketched while working outdoors by his friend, Thomas Dick Lauder, 1831, National Gallery of Scotland Memorial window to Rev John Thomson, Duddingston Kirk. Rev John Thomson FRSE HonRSA (1 September 1778 – 28 October 1840) was a Scottish minister of the Church of ...
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity is a non-fiction book by Andrew Solomon published in November 2012 in the United States [1] and two months later in the UK (under the title, Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love), [2] about how families accommodate children with physical, mental and social disabilities and differences.