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William Jonathan Northen (July 9, 1835 – March 25, 1913), was the 54th Governor of Georgia from 1890 to 1894, as well as a leading Baptist minister. Northen was president of the Georgia Baptist Convention from 1892 to 1910, and president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1899 to 1901. [1]
William Thompson Sedgwick (December 29, 1855 – January 25, 1921) was a teacher, epidemiologist, bacteriologist, and a key figure in shaping public health in the United States. He was president of many scientific and professional organizations during his lifetime, including president of the American Public Health Association in 1915.
J. Eric S. Thompson. Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson KBE (31 December 1898 – 9 September 1975 [1]) was a leading English Mesoamerican archaeologist, ethnohistorian, and epigrapher. While working in the United States, he unabashedly hijacked the Maya studies and particularly the study of the Maya script with his pomposity and ignorance until ...
Billy Thompson. William Allen Thompson (born October 10, 1946) is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback and safety in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Denver Broncos in the third round [1] of the 1969 NFL Draft. He played college football at Maryland State College and was inducted into ...
William Jameson Thompson, CBE (27 October 1885 – 17 November 1975) was a long-serving Anglican bishop [1] who spent much of his career in Iran (then Persia). [2] Educated at Monkton Combe School [3] and Trinity College, Cambridge, he served in the Great War as an officer in the Royal Engineers. Ordained in 1921, [4] he was initially principal ...
Writer. Detective Inspector Walter Henry Thompson BEM (3 December 1890 – 18 January 1978) was a British police officer who is best known as the bodyguard of Winston Churchill for eighteen years, between 1921 and 1935, and between 1939 and 1945 during World War II. Thompson reportedly saved Churchill's life on numerous occasions.
The Feit–Thompson theorem showed that the classification of finite simple groups using centralizers of involutions might be possible, as every nonabelian simple group has an involution. Many of the techniques they introduced in their proof, especially the idea of local analysis, were developed further into tools used in the classification.
Joule–Thomson effect. In thermodynamics, the Joule–Thomson effect (also known as the Joule–Kelvin effect or Kelvin–Joule effect) describes the temperature change of a real gas or liquid (as differentiated from an ideal gas) when it is forced through a valve or porous plug while keeping it insulated so that no heat is exchanged with the ...