Noun: Thompson tómp-sun
- English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814)
- Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
- United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000)
- Homer Thompson, Homer A. Thompson, Homer Armstrong Thompson
Derived forms: Thompsons
Type of: archaeologist, archeologist [US], physicist
Encyclopedia: Thompson, Nebraska