(n) English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814), Syn. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
(n) British physicist who invented the Kelvin scale of temperature and pioneered undersea telegraphy (1824-1907), Syn. William Thompson, First Baron Kelvin
[ohagurohagi] (n) Thompson's surgeonfish (Acanthurus thompsoni, species of Indo-Pacific tang whose Indian Ocean population lacks the white caudal fin of the Pacific variety)