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Thorleif Haug
Thorleif Haug (1894–1934), Norwegian skier from Lier nicknamed Skikongen; won 18 km, 50 km, and Nordic combined gold at the 1924 Chamonix Olympics, with six Holmenkollen 50 km wins; ski jumping bronze later reassigned to Anders Haugen.
Thorleif Holbye
Thorleif Holbye was a Norwegian sailor with the Kongelig Norsk Seilforening of Oslo who won a gold medal in the 8 meter class at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.
Thorleif Kristoffersen
Thorleif Kristoffersen (Thorleif Asbjørn Kristoffersen, 1900–1971), Norwegian sailor; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the 8-metre (1919 rating) class aboard Sildra with Konow, Martiniuson, and Vik.
Thorn (letter)
Thorn (þ, Þ; Unicode U+00FE/U+00DE) is a Latin-alphabet letter derived from the rune ᚦ, representing dental fricatives; used in Old English and still in Icelandic, replaced by "th" in English after script change and printing.
Thorndike Saville Jr.
Thorndike Saville Jr. (1925–2014) was an American coastal engineer who served as technical director of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Coastal Engineering Research Center.
Thorne Lay
Thorne Lay is an American seismologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, known for work on deep-Earth structure, the D″ discontinuity, and great earthquake ruptures.
Thorne Smith
Thorne Smith (James Thorne Smith Jr., 1892–1934) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy, best known for Topper (1926), a best-seller adapted into films, radio, and television.
Thornham Roman Signal Station
Thornham Roman Signal Station, also called Thornham Fort (NHER 1308), is a scheduled rectangular enclosure on Beacon Hill, Norfolk, once identified as a Roman signal station but shown by excavation to be a native fortification of circa AD 40 to 60, later an Anglo-Saxon cemetery.
Thorns, spines, and prickles
Thorns, spines, and prickles are sharp plant defenses distinguished by origin: thorns are modified stems, spines modified leaves, prickles non-vascular epidermal outgrowths like those on roses, evolved mainly against large mammalian herbivores.
Thornton W. Burgess
Thornton W. Burgess was an American children's author and conservationist who wrote about nature for five decades. His syndicated Bedtime Stories column introduced generations to wildlife.
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), American playwright and novelist; only writer to win Pulitzers in both fiction (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) and drama (Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth); author of The Matchmaker, basis for Hello, Dolly!, and Hitchcock collaborator on Shadow of a Doubt.
Thornton, Colorado
Thornton, Colorado: home rule city in Adams County, nine miles north of Denver, incorporated May 26, 1956 and named for Governor Daniel Thornton. Grew from Sam Hoffman's 1953 planned subdivision to about 148,000 people, with water supply from the South Platte basin.
Thorny devil
Thorny devil (Moloch horridus), also mountain devil or thorny dragon: a small spiny agamid lizard endemic to arid Australia, eats only ants (about 750 daily), and drinks via capillary skin channels; IUCN Least Concern.
Thorold Gosset
Thorold Gosset was an English lawyer and amateur mathematician whose 1900 paper enumerated the semiregular polytopes in every dimension, giving the figures now called Gosset polytopes.
Thoron (dye)
Thoron, more commonly sold as Thorin (also Thoronol), is an arsenic-containing azo dye used as a chromogenic reagent and indicator for determining thorium, uranium, barium, beryllium, and lithium.
Thorough QT study
A thorough QT study is a clinical trial measuring whether a new drug prolongs the ECG QT interval, the principal regulatory test under ICH E14 since 2005.
Thoroughbred
Thoroughbred, English horse breed for flat racing, founded on the Darley Arabian, Godolphin Arabian, and Byerly Turk; defined by the 1791 General Stud Book and American Stud Book registry, averaging 16 hands and 35-40 mph.
Thoroughbred breeding theories
Thoroughbred breeding theories, including Bruce Lowe's figure system, dosage, and the MSTN speed gene test, predict racehorse ability from pedigree; heritability is low to moderate and race times have barely improved in 60 years.
Thoroughbreds (2017 film)
Thoroughbreds is a 2017 American dark comedy-thriller, Cory Finley's feature debut adapted from his stage play, starring Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Anton Yelchin; premiered at Sundance 2017, released March 9, 2018.
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie: 1967 Universal musical comedy directed by George Roy Hill, starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing; won the Oscar for Elmer Bernstein's score and became a six-Tony Broadway musical in 2002.
Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical)
Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 2002 Broadway musical with new music by Jeanine Tesori and lyrics by Dick Scanlan, based on the 1967 Julie Andrews film; it won six Tonys including Best Musical and is currently unavailable for licensing.
THORP
THORP, the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant at Sellafield in West Cumbria, England, reprocessed 9,000 tonnes of spent oxide fuel from 1994 to 2018, earning about £9 billion, and now stores spent AGR fuel.
Thorpe affair
The Thorpe affair: 1970s British scandal in which Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe was accused over his relationship with Norman Scott and of conspiring to murder him; acquitted at the 1979 Old Bailey trial but politically ruined.
Thorpe Park
Thorpe Park Resort is a Merlin Entertainments theme park at Thorpe, Surrey, between Chertsey and Staines-upon-Thames, opened by Lord Mountbatten in 1979 on a flooded gravel pit; home to Hyperia, the UK's tallest and fastest coaster, and Stealth.
THORPEX
THORPEX (The Observing-system Research and Predictability Experiment) was a ten-year international weather research program under the World Meteorological Organization, established in 2003 and run from 2005 to 2014.
Thorsberg moor
Thorsberg moor (Thorsberger Moor, Thorsbjerg Mose) is an Iron Age war-booty sacrifice bog near Süderbrarup, Germany, excavated 1858–61 by Conrad Engelhardt; deposits c. 100 BC–5th century AD preserve Roman helmets, mail, and textiles.
Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), American economist and Wisconsin-born son of Norwegian farmers, founded institutional and evolutionary economics, coined conspicuous consumption in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), critiqued capitalism and higher education, and taught at Chicago, Stanford, Missouri, and the New School.
Thorsten Bach
Thorsten Bach, born 1965 in Ludwigshafen, is a German organic chemist and professor at the Technical University of Munich whose pioneering enantioselective photocatalysis earned the 2020 Leibniz Prize and 2024 Ryoji Noyori Prize.
Thorsten Beck
Thorsten Beck is a German economist known for research on banking regulation and finance, and director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance since 2021.
Thorsten Hoppe
Thorsten Hoppe (born 1969) is a German molecular biologist and full professor at the University of Cologne, leading a laboratory on protein homeostasis in aging and disease.