Thomas Thomson
Chemist, Author
1773 – 1852
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Who was Thomas Thomson?
Thomas Thomson was a Scottish chemist and mineralogist whose writings contributed to the early spread of Dalton's atomic theory.
He was the inventor of the saccharometer. Furthermore, he gave silicon its current name.
He served as president of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow.
Thomson was the father of the botanist Thomas Thomson, and the uncle and father-in-law of the Medical Officer of Health Robert Thomson.
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