thompson

Noun thompson has 2 senses

• thompson(n = noun.person) homer a. thompson, homer armstrong thompson, homer thompson - United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000); Array
is a kind of archaeologist, archeologist

• thompson(n = noun.person) benjamin thompson, count rumford - English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814); Array
is a kind of physicist