Using the software that came with your webcam, usually found on the CD packaged with your laptop, you can also alter how your camera detects light and sound. Getting Windows to detect your webcam involves checking your Devices from the Control Panel, but you can be up and running conference calls within minutes.
Forty-seven-year old comedian and actor John Thomson met fellow comic Steve Coogan while studying drama at Manchester Polytechnic and he secured him a job on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image.
Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906, and his son, physicist George Paget Thomson, won the same honor in 1937. Father: Joseph James Thomson (bookseller, d. 1872) Mother: Emma Thomson Wife: Rose Elizabeth Paget (lab student, m. 22-Jan-1890, one son, one daughter) Son: George Paget Thomson (physicist) Daughter: Joan Paget Thomson.