As the New York Giants, they won 14 pennants and 5 World Championships, from the era of John McGraw and Christy Mathewson to that of Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays.

In addition to Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays, other memorable members of the Giants teams during the 1950s include: Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher, coach Herman Franks, Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin, outfielder and runnerup for the 1954 NL batting championship ( won by Willie Mays ) Don Mueller, Hall of Fame knuckleball relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, starting pitchers Larry Jansen, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Marv Grissom, Dave Koslo, Don Liddle, Max Lanier, Rubén Gómez, and Johnny Antonelli, catcher Wes Westrum, catchers Ray Katt and Sal Yvars, shortstop Alvin Dark, third baseman Hank Thompson, first baseman Whitey Lockman, second basemen Davey Williams and Eddie Stanky, outfielder, pitcher Clint Hartung, Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and utility players: Bill Rigney, Daryl Spencer, Bobby Hofman, and Dusty Rhodes among others.

In 1949, Virgil Thomson won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his score to the film ( which contains only one Cajun-styled piece ).

Indian journalist Sunanda K. Datta-Ray claimed that Merle worked as a telephone operator in Calcutta under the name Queenie Thomson, and won a contest at Firpo's Restaurant there, before her film career started.

" The Gold Bug " episode on the 1980 ABC Weekend Special series, which starred Roberts Blossom as Mr. LeGrand, Geoffrey Holder as Jupiter, and Anthony Michael Hall, won three Daytime Emmy Awards: 1 ) Outstanding Children's Anthology / Dramatic Programming, Linda Gottlieb ( executive producer ), Doro Bachrach ( producer ), For episode " The Gold Bug "; 2 ) Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming, Steve Atha ( makeup and hair designer ), For episode " The Gold Bug "; and, 3 ) Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming, Alex Thomson ( cinematographer ), For episode " The Gold Bug ".

He and Thomson together set and examined the Adams prize topic on Saturn's rings, won by Maxwell in 1857.

In this episode, Erik Thomson won AUS $ 43, 000 for his chosen charity, which was CARE Australia.

Thomson attended Long Beach Poly, where he won the 120 yard hurdles at the first CIF California State Meet in 1915.

At the Olympics, Thomson won a clear victory over his American rivals.

J. J. Thomson, who won the first medal in 1902 " for his numerous contributions to electric science, especially in reference to the phenomena of electric discharge in gases "

In the 2007 election, which Labor won, Thomson achieved a swing, on the two-party preferred vote of 5. 5 %, and received 56. 9 % of the primary vote.

The Giants won the first game 3 – 1 as a result of a two-run home run by Thomson ( off Branca ).

For her performance, Chlumsky won a Young Artist Award for " Best Performance by a Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture "; Thomson and O ' Brien were also nominated for Young Artist Awards for their roles.

Whereas his father had seen the electron as a particle ( and won his Nobel Prize in the process ), Thomson demonstrated that it could be diffracted like a wave, a discovery proving the principle of wave-particle duality which had first been posited by Louis-Victor de Broglie in the 1920s as what is often dubbed the de Broglie hypothesis.

Under Liddle's editorship, Today won a number of awards: a Sony Silver in 2002 for reports by Barnie Choudhury and Mike Thomson into the causes of race riots in the north of England ; a Sony Bronze in 2003 for an investigation by Angus Stickler into paedophile priests ; and an Amnesty International Media Award in 2003 for Gilligan's investigation into the sale of illegal landmines, an investigation that attracted a lengthy legal action.

Ewing won a scholarship to the University of Edinburgh where he studied under William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin and Peter Guthrie Tait before graduating in engineering.

Thomson won the 1948 UCOA New England title after winning 32 midget events.

The Ferrari 166M in which Chinetti won was turned over to Baron Selsdon of Scotland ( Peter Mitchell-Thomson ) for twenty minutes during the race, making Thomson the official co-driver although Chinetti had driven twenty-three of the hours of the race.

The poem, despite its insistently bleak tone, won the praise of George Meredith, and also of George Saintsbury, who in A History of Nineteenth Century Literature wrote that " what saves Thomson is the perfection with which he expresses the negative and hopeless side of the sense of mystery ..."

Harry Vardon wins his sixth Open Championship, a record to this day ( Peter Thomson and Tom Watson have since won five Opens each ).

The 1951 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the New York Giants, who had won the National League pennant in a thrilling three-game playoff with the Brooklyn Dodgers on the legendary home run by Bobby Thomson ( the Shot Heard ' Round the World ).

He is one of only four golfers who have won three consecutive Opens, alongside Young Tom Morris ( 1868 – 1870 ), Bob Ferguson ( 1880 – 82 ) and Peter Thomson ( 1954 – 56 ).

* Coppola had the car radio play the broadcast of the baseball playoff game won by Bobby Thomson hitting the Shot Heard Round the World.

On 11 April 1931, Thomson won the second medal of his career as Celtic beat Motherwell 4-2 in the 1931 Scottish Cup Final.

Detroit won the second game of the series 3 – 1, a violent and fight-filled affair which included a stick-swinging incident between the Leafs ' Jimmy Thomson and Detroit's Leo Reise and a fight between Kennedy and Ted Lindsay.

In the 1974 – 75 series, with the England team breaking up and their best batsman Geoff Boycott refusing to play, Australian pace bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee wreaked havoc.

* 1950 – Jeff Thomson, Australian cricketer

* 1800 – Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician ( d. 1879 )

* 1961 – Andrew Thomson, Australian politician

* July 10 – Peter Thomson becomes the first Australian to win the British Open Golf Championship.

In Hollywood, he tended to refer to himself as Irish rather than Australian ( his father Theodore Thomson Flynn had been a biologist and a professor at the Queen's University of Belfast in Northern Ireland during the latter part of his career ).

In the early postwar years The Open was dominated by golfers from the Commonwealth, with South African Bobby Locke and Australian Peter Thomson winning the Claret Jug in eight of the 11 championships from 1948 and 1958 between them.

* Winterton, G, Lee, HP, Glass, A & Thomson, JA, Australian Federal Constitutional Law: Commentary and Materials, 2nd ed., Lawbook Co., 2007.

* Winterton, G, Lee, HP, Glass, A & Thomson, JA, Australian Federal Constitutional Law: Commentary and Materials, LBC, 1999.

Thanks to this result, this Australian team, managed by the English Terry Venables and not by the Scottish Oceania Champion Eddie Thomson, took part to the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup in Saudi Arabia, finishind second losing the final match against Brazil.

Figurative painters Nigel Thomson ( 1945 – 1999 ), Stewart MacFarlane and Fred Cress ( 1938 – 2009 ) explored the seamy side of urban Australian life.

* Jeff Thomson, an Australian cricketer

All Saints has featured popular Australian actors such as Georgie Parker, Erik Thomson, Libby Tanner, Tammy MacIntosh, Judith McGrath, John Howard, John Waters, Chris Vance and Natasha Beaumont.

* Kirsten Thomson, Australian swimmer.

Kelvin John Thomson ( born 1 May 1955 ) is an Australian politician.

Since March 1996 Thomson has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Wills in Victoria.

The Sydney Morning Herald coverage emphasized that Kevin Rudd was under pressure over " allegations surrounding his past meetings with disgraced former Western Australian premier Brian Burke " ; and that Thomson " had no choice but to resign, especially since Prime Minister John Howard raised the bar a week ago by sacking Ian Campbell for doing nothing more than meeting, in his then-capacity as heritage minister, a delegation which included Burke.

Robert James Thomson ( born 11 March 1961 ) is an Australian journalist and the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal.

* Robert James Thomson, Australian journalist and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal

The fastest bowler ever in the cricket history was Australian Jeff Thomson.

Australian wicket-keeper Rod Marsh kept wicket to Thomson for most of his Test career and claimed that Thomson bowled upwards of 180 km / h.

Shocked by the Australian fast bowling attack of Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee, most English batsmen struggled in the first Test at Brisbane.

The ' slingy ' nature of his action has led to comparisons with former Australian fast bowler Jeff Thomson.