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unusual facts about James Thomson


Cumberland Terrace

The Terrace was built by William Mountford Nurse, with James Thomson serving as resident architect, and was completed in 1826.


André Chénier

Although John Milton and James Thomson seem to have interested him, and a few of his verses show slight inspiration from Shakespeare and Thomas Gray, it would be an exaggeration to say Chénier studied English literature.

Geron Corporation

The company's Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board has included James Thomson, Leonard Hayflick, Carol Greider, and others.

Regenerative medicine

From 1995 to 1998 Michael D. West, PhD, organized and managed the research between Geron Corporation and its academic collaborators James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins University that led to the first isolation of human embryonic stem and human embryonic germ cells.


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Archibald Prentice

Prentice married, on 3 June 1819, Jane, daughter of James Thomson of Oatridge, near Linlithgow.