Thomas Thomson (1773-1852) Scottish chemist and mineralogist. Regius Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow University (1817-1852). He was an enthusiastic

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Thomas Thomson (1773-1852) Scottish chemist and mineralogist. Regius Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow University (1817-1852). He was an enthusiastic supporter of Daltonian theories of chemical atomism and his writings contributed to their early spread. His 'History of Chemistry' greatly enhanced the status of chemistry as a profession. He pioneered the concept of students having to undertake practical experimental work in the laboratory. The saccharometer, an instrument to measure the quantity of sugar in liquids, was an invention derived by Thomson in1805. In 1817 he gave silicon its present name.

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