Thomas Thomson
1773-1852
| He was a Scottish chemist. Although he went
to graduate school in medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1799,
he was inspired by Joseph Black to take
up chemistry. In 1796, he succeeded his brother James as assistant editor
of the Supplement to the Third Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica,
contributing the articles "Chemistry", "Mineralogy",
and "Vegetable", "Animal" and "dyeing substances".
In 1820, he used these articles as the basis of his book System of
Chemistry. In 1817, Thomson became regius professor of chemistry
at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and in 1820, he identified a
new zeolite mineral, which was named thomsonite in his honor.
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