thomson Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

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