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Thomas J. Murrin
Thomas J. Murrin was an American engineer who retired in 1987 as president of Westinghouse's Energy and Advanced Technology Group and co-founded Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute.
Thomas J. O'Neil
Thomas J. O'Neil is an American mining engineer and mineral economist who served as president and COO of Cleveland-Cliffs and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
Thomas J. Overbye
Thomas J. Overbye is an American electrical engineer, professor at Texas A&M University, and original developer of the PowerWorld Simulator, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Thomas J. Pinnavaia
Thomas J. Pinnavaia is an inorganic chemist who joined Michigan State University in 1966 and is known for mesoporous materials, pillared clays, and templated synthesis of inorganic solids.
Thomas J. Richardson
Thomas J. Richardson is an information theorist and Qualcomm VP of Engineering in New Jersey who, with Rüdiger Urbanke, developed iterative decoding of LDPC codes approaching the Shannon limit.
Thomas J. Ryan
Thomas J. Ryan (1928–2020) was an American cardiologist at Boston University who led the Coronary Artery Surgery Study and served as American Heart Association president.
Thomas J. Sargent
Thomas J. Sargent (born 1943, Pasadena) is an American macroeconomist, NYU professor and Hoover senior fellow who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize with Christopher Sims for empirical macroeconomic research and led the rational expectations revolution with Neil Wallace and Robert Lucas.
Thomas J. Schmidt
Thomas J. Schmidt is a Swiss-based electrochemist, professor and chair for electrochemistry at ETH Zürich since 2011, known for work on electrocatalysts for water electrolysis.
Thomas J. Silhavy
Thomas J. Silhavy is a bacterial geneticist and Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, known for work on Escherichia coli outer membrane biogenesis.
Thomas J. Smith
Thomas J. Smith is an American medical oncologist and palliative care physician, professor at Johns Hopkins since 2011, known for cancer cost research and ASCO's first palliative care guidelines.
Thomas J. Tierney
Thomas J. Tierney is an American business executive who led Bain & Company through its early-1990s recovery, then co-founded The Bridgespan Group, advising philanthropists including MacKenzie Scott.
Thomas J. Walsh
Thomas J. Walsh is an American physician-scientist in infectious diseases and medical mycology whose randomized trials in the New England Journal of Medicine reshaped antifungal therapy in cancer patients.
Thomas J. Wang
Thomas J. Wang is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher who became dean of the University of Michigan Medical School in 2025, known for Framingham biomarker research.
Thomas J. Watson
Thomas J. Watson, also known as Thomas John Watson Sr., was an American executive who took over CTR in 1914 and renamed it IBM in 1924.
Thomas J. Whelan (American judge)
Thomas J. Whelan, born in 1940, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of California, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Thomas J.R. Hughes
Thomas J.R. Hughes is an American computational mechanist at the University of Texas at Austin, credited with founding stabilized methods, variational multiscale methods, and isogeometric analysis.
Thomas Jacobsen
Thomas Jacobsen (born 1972) is a Danish sailor, Olympic Soling gold medalist at Sydney 2000 with Jesper Bank and Henrik Blakskjær, later Dansk Sejlunion sports manager 2010-2024; distinct from a Norwegian Paralympic skier and a Danish curler of the same name.
Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane is an American actor from Baltimore known as Frank Castle in The Punisher (2004), Joe Miller in The Expanse, and Ray Drecker in Hung; he also directed Dark Country and founded RAW Studios.
Thomas Jarzombek
Thomas Jarzombek, born 1973, is a German CDU politician who has directly represented Düsseldorf I in the Bundestag since 2009 and serves as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), American Founding Father, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, first U.S. Secretary of State, and third President (1801–1809), known for the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the Embargo Act.
Thomas Jefferson and slavery
Thomas Jefferson and slavery: the author of "all men are created equal" owned more than 600 enslaved people, freed only Hemings family members, is widely believed to have fathered children with Sally Hemings, and after his death 130 enslaved people were auctioned in 1827.
Thomas Jefferson Hadley
Thomas Jefferson Hadley IV (1838–1917) was a North Carolina banker and army captain who co-founded the private banking firm Branch and Hadley in Wilson in 1872.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), a selective Virginia Governor's School magnet in Alexandria run by Fairfax County Public Schools since 1985, admits about 550 of 3,000 applicants and features nine senior research labs and a contested 2020 holistic admissions overhaul.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, known as Jefferson Lab or JLab, is a Department of Energy laboratory in Newport News, Virginia, operating the CEBAF electron accelerator to study quarks and gluons.
Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Thomas Jefferson Randolph (1792-1875), eldest grandson and executor of Thomas Jefferson, Virginia legislator behind the 1832 gradual-emancipation proposal, UVA Rector, and chairman of the 1872 Democratic National Convention.
Thomas Jefferson Rusk
Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1803–1857), Texas soldier, jurist, and statesman; signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, first secretary of war of the Republic, chief justice, and one of Texas's first two U.S. senators.
Thomas Jefferson University
Thomas Jefferson University, founded in Philadelphia in 1824 as Jefferson Medical College, is a private health sciences university that merged with Philadelphia University in 2017.
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, flagship of Jefferson Health at 111 S 11th St, Philadelphia; 717-bed academic Level I trauma center, founded 1825, second U.S. teaching hospital (1877), U.S. News top-10 PA hospital.
Thomas Jenuwein
Thomas Jenuwein, born 1956 in Lohr am Main, Germany, is a German molecular biologist known for discovering the first histone lysine methyltransferase and co-proposing the histone code hypothesis.
Thomas Johanson
Thomas Johanson (born 1969, Helsinki) is a Finnish sailor, 2000 Sydney Olympic gold medalist in the 49er with Jyrki Järvi, Laser world champion 1993, and Volvo Ocean Race helmsman, distinct from wrestlers and athletes of similar name.