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May 2, 2024 · James Thomson is an American biologist who was among the first to isolate human embryonic stem cells and the first to transform human skin cells into stem cells. Thomson grew up in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. At the University of Illinois, from which he graduated in 1981 with a bachelor’s.
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James Thomson (c. 11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!" Scotland, 1700–1725. James Thomson was born in Ednam in Roxburghshire around 11 September 1700 and baptised on 15 September.
James Thomson. 1700–1748. Because James Thomson’s long, reflective landscape poem The Seasons (1730) commanded so much attention and affection for at least 100 years after he wrote it, his achievement has been identified with it.
Apr 11, 2024 · James Thomson was a Scottish poet whose best verse foreshadowed some of the attitudes of the Romantic movement. His poetry also gave expression to the achievements of Newtonian science and to an England reaching toward great political power based on commercial and maritime expansion.
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Because James Thomson’s long, reflective landscape poem The Seasons (1730) commanded so much attention and affection for at least 100 years after he wrote it, his achievement has been identified with it. Thomson, however, was also a political figure through other poems and through some...
By James Thomson. See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train— Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme, These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought. And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms! Congenial horrors, hail! With frequent foot, Pleas’d have I, in my cheerful morn of life,
Apr 11, 2024 · James Thomson (born Nov. 23, 1834, Port Glasgow, Renfrew, Scot.—died June 3, 1882, London) was a Scottish Victorian poet who is best remembered for his sombre, imaginative poem “ The City of Dreadful Night,” a symbolic expression of his horror of urban dehumanization.
