Thomas Young
1773-1829
English physician and physicist who established the wave theory of light with his experiments on interference patterns. Young's interest in sense perception led to the di...
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Thomas Young
1773-1829
English physicist and physician who is primarily remembered for his contributions to the wave theory of light. A remarkably versatile scientist, Young is also honored as the fou...
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Thomas Young
1773-1829
British Physicist, Physician and Egyptologist
Thomas Young's career straddles the turn of the nineteenth century. In some ways he was an old-style natural philosopher, da...
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The English physicist Thomas Young (1773-1829) is best known for his double-slit interference experiment which validated the wave theory of light and for the elastic modulus named for him.Concerning T...
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A child prodigy, Young learned to read by age two and twice finished the Bible by age six. He learned more than a dozen languages, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean, and Arabic.. He was a music...
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A child prodigy, Young learned to read by age two and twice finished the Bible by age six. He learned more than a dozen languages, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean, and Arabic.. He was a music...
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Thomas Young
Thomas Young
Thomas Young
Thomas Young