Tom R. Thomson, 98, died Thursday, February 9, 2017.  He was a professor emeritus and author. In 1919 he immigrated with his parents and five siblings to the United States where they settled in Alameda, California.  In 1925 at the age of seven he, along with 1000 of California's most intelligent children, was accepted into the Terman Gifted Children program at Stanford University.  Nicknamed 'Termites', the program has been following their lives and careers in a longitudinal study ever since.  He was among the last surviving subjects of the study. He entered the University of California, Berkeley at the age of sixteen where he graduated in 1939 with a B.Sc. in organic chemistry.  He studied for his M.Sc. at the University of Washington in Seattle and received his Ph.D. from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas in 1946. He and his wife, June, moved to Alamosa, Colorado where he served as the Chairman of the Chemistry Department at Adams State College. In 1961 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at ASU. He retired in 1984. Dr. Thomson is survived by his wife, June, five children, a foster son and three grandchildren. Donations to Pets Lifeline in Sonoma would be appreciated. Visitation was held February 15, 2017 at the Adobe Creek Funeral Home, 331 Lakeville St., Petaluma, CA. (Source: ASU Foundation)