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Tom Thomson
Tom Thomson 1877-1917, Canadian painter of typically Canadian outdoor scenes, b. Ontario. Thomson was self-taught. Most of the year he served as a guide at Algonquin Provincial Park in order to support himself as a painter. His love of the outdoors was reflected in bold, vibrantly colored landscape...
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Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson 1896-1989, American composer, critic, and organist, b. Kansas City, Mo. Thomson studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger . Until about 1926 he wrote in a dissonant, neoclassic style, but after his 16-minute quintet Sonata da chiesa (1926) he began to employ a highly simplified style ...
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Thomas Augustine Arne
Thomas Augustine Arne , 1710-78, English composer. Arne composed the song Rule, Britannia, based on an ode by James Thomson. He composed new music for an adaptation of Milton's masque Comus (1738) and for some of the songs in Shakespeare's plays. He also wrote operas, oratorios, including Judit...
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Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger , 1887-1979, French conductor and musician, b. Paris. Boulanger was considered an outstanding teacher of composition. She studied at the Paris Conservatory, where in 1945 she became professor. Boulanger taught at the École normale de Musique, Paris, and (from 1921) at the Amer...
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Thomas Edward Watson
Thomas Edward Watson 1856-1922, American political leader, b. Columbia co., Ga. A successful lawyer, he practiced in Thomson, Ga., before serving (1882-83) in the state legislature and as a Farmers' Alliance Democrat in Congress (1891-93), where he worked for rural free delivery of mail. He was a s...
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Sir George Paget Thomson
Sir George Paget Thomson 1892-1975, English physicist; son of Sir Joseph John Thomson. He was professor of natural philosophy at the Univ. of Aberdeen (1922-30) and from 1930 to 1952 was professor of physics at Imperial College, Univ. of London. In 1952, he became master of Corpus Christi College, ...
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William Thomson Kelvin, 1st Baron
William Thomson Kelvin, 1st Baron 1824-1907, British mathematician and physicist, b. Belfast. He was professor of natural philosophy at the Univ. of Glasgow (1846-99). He is known especially for his work on heat and electricity. In thermodynamics his work of coordinating the theories of heat held...
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James Thomson
James Thomson 1834-82, Scottish poet and essayist. He is remembered for his darkly pessimistic poem The City of Dreadful Night. He was raised in an orphan asylum and became (1851) an army teacher at Ballincollig, Ireland. In 1862 he was dismissed from the service for a very minor offense, became ...
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Sir Charles Wyville Thomson
Sir Charles Wyville Thomson 1830-82, Scottish naturalist, noted as a marine biologist and deep-sea explorer. He participated in three deep-sea dredging expeditions (1868-70) and obtained evidence that animal life abounded in depths previously believed to be azoic; he recorded the results of his stu...
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Mortimer Neal Thomson
Mortimer Neal Thomson 1831-75, American journalist and humorist who used the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P.B., b. Riga, N.Y. He joined the staff of the New York Tribune in 1855. His contributions in verse and prose, especially those against slavery, attracted wide attention. During the C...
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