Edgepedia

Thomas George Cowling

Thomas George Cowling (1906–1990) was a British astronomer, a founder of magnetohydrodynamics known for Cowling's theorem and the Cowling model of stellar structure, and professor of applied mathematics at Leeds.

Thomas Gerald Room

Thomas Gerald Room (1902–1986) was an English-born Australian mathematician, professor of mathematics at the University of Sydney from 1935 to 1968, known for projective geometry and Room squares.

Thomas Gibson

Thomas Ellis Gibson (born 1962, Charleston, SC) is an American actor known for Dr. Daniel Nyland in Chicago Hope, Greg Montgomery in Dharma & Greg, and Aaron Hotchner in Criminal Minds, from which he was fired in 2016.

Thomas Gillier

Thomas Gillier (Thomas Clemente Philippe Gillier Correa), Chilean goalkeeper born 2004 in Las Condes, a Universidad Católica academy product now at CF Montréal on loan from Bologna FC, with Chile U20 caps and a 2026 MLS season of 19 starts and four clean sheets.

Thomas Gilovich

Thomas Gilovich is an American psychologist at Cornell University who studies how people judge everyday evidence; his work spans regret, experiential purchases, and the hot hand in basketball.

Thomas Girardi

Thomas Vincent Girardi, disbarred California trial lawyer (bar #36603, admitted 1965) of Girardi & Keese, won the $333 million PG&E Hinkley settlement behind Erin Brockovich, then was convicted of wire fraud for embezzling client settlement funds and sentenced in 2025 to 87 months in prison.

Oct 21, 2026

Thomas Glen Coats

Sir Thomas Glen-Coats (1878–1954), Scottish sailor and 2nd Baronet of Ferguslie Park, won 1908 Olympic gold in the 12-metre class skippering Hera on the River Clyde, the only Olympic event held in Scotland.

Thomas Gold

Thomas Gold (1920–2004) was an Austrian-born astronomer and physicist at Cornell University, best known for explaining pulsars as rotating neutron stars and for his deep hot biosphere hypothesis.

Thomas Goldwell

Thomas Goldwell was the last Catholic Bishop of St Asaph, a Kentish priest who served Cardinal Pole and died in exile in Rome in 1585.

Thomas Gordon Thompson

Thomas Gordon Thompson (1888–1961) was an American chemist at the University of Washington, the first American chemist to devote major efforts to sea water chemistry.

Sep 20, 2026

Thomas Graf (Austrian molecular biologist)

Thomas Graf, born 1944 in Vienna, is an Austrian molecular biologist and Emeritus Group Leader at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, known for oncogene cooperativity.

Oct 22, 2026

Thomas Graves (admiral)

Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves (1725–1802), was a Royal Navy admiral whose defeat at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 led to Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.

Thomas Gravesen

Thomas Gravesen, Danish midfielder born 1976 in Vejle; played for Vejle BK, Hamburger SV, Everton, Real Madrid (49 games, 2005–06), and Celtic; 66 Denmark caps, 5 goals; retired 2009.

Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray (1716–1771), English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and Cambridge professor of modern history; author of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751), declined the 1757 laureateship, published little, second only to Pope among eighteenth-century English poets.

Thomas Gregor

Thomas Gregor is a German biophysicist, professor of physics at Princeton University and head of the Physics of Biological Function unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.

Oct 21, 2026

Thomas Greiner

Thomas Greiner (born 1963, Dresden) is an East German rower, 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in the coxless fours, four-time world champion, later a FISA international referee and Thomas Keller Medal winner.

Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset

Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (1451–1501), stepson of Edward IV, Earl of Huntingdon, then Marquess of Dorset from 1475; fought at Tewkesbury, exiled under Richard III, later served Henry VII.

Thomas Greytak

Thomas John Greytak is an American experimental physicist, the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus at MIT, known for the 1998 achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation in atomic hydrogen and for evaporative cooling.

Thomas Gridley

Thomas Gridley is an American developmental geneticist and Tufts professor based at MaineHealth Institute for Research, known for work on the Notch signaling pathway and Snail genes.

Thomas Guthrie

Thomas Guthrie (1803–1873) was a Free Church of Scotland minister and celebrated pulpit orator whose 1847 Plea for Ragged Schools established schools for destitute children in Edinburgh.

Thomas H Lee Equity

Thomas H. Lee Equity is the flagship buyout fund series of THL, a Boston private equity firm founded by Thomas H. Lee in 1974, distinct from Lee Equity Partners.

Thomas H. Eickbush

Thomas H. Eickbush is an American molecular biologist and University of Rochester professor known for his work on the R2 retrotransposon of the silkmoth and for establishing target-primed reverse transcription.

Thomas H. Gallagher

Thomas H. Gallagher is an American general internist and patient-safety researcher at the University of Washington, known for research on disclosing medical errors and Communication-and-Resolution Programs.

Sep 19, 2026

Thomas H. Handy

Thomas H. Handy was a 19th-century New Orleans wine and liquor merchant who ran the Sazerac House, origin of the Sazerac Company, and is credited with the Sazerac cocktail.

Thomas H. Hostetter

Thomas H. Hostetter is an American nephrologist at the University of North Carolina, known for his 1982 review linking dietary protein to kidney disease progression.

Thomas H. Ince

Thomas H. Ince (Thomas Harper Ince, 1882 or 1880–1924) was an American silent-film producer and director, builder of Inceville and originator of the Hollywood producer system with continuity scripts; died aboard Hearst's yacht.

Thomas H. Jordan

Thomas H. Jordan, born 1948, is an American geophysicist at the University of Southern California who directed the Southern California Earthquake Center from 2002 to 2017.