Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun thompson

2 senses of thompson

Sense 1
Thompson, Homer Thompson, Homer A. Thompson, Homer Armstrong Thompson -- (United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000))
       INSTANCE OF=> archeologist, archaeologist -- (an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture)

Sense 2
Thompson, 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))
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)