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Thomas Young FRS (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology.
Jun 9, 2024 · Thomas Young, English physician and physicist who with his double-slit experiment established the principle of interference of light and thus resurrected the century-old wave theory of light. He was also an Egyptologist who helped decipher the Rosetta Stone.
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Jun 13, 2018 · The character of the British physician Thomas Young (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) can almost be summed up in a couple of anecdotes that open and close respectively the career of one of the most prolific polymaths in history.
May 29, 2024 · Young’s experiment, classical investigation into the nature of light, an investigation that provided the basic element in the development of the wave theory and was first performed by the English physicist and physician Thomas Young in 1801.
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Jan 28, 2019 · In the early 1800s (1801 to 1805, depending on the source), Thomas Young conducted his experiment. He allowed light to pass through a slit in a barrier so it expanded out in wave fronts from that slit as a light source (under Huygens' Principle).
- Andrew Zimmerman Jones
Jun 11, 2024 · Thomas Young postulated that light is a wave and is subject to the superposition principle; his great experimental achievement was to demonstrate the constructive and destructive interference of light (c. 1801).
Nov 14, 2023 · Thomas Young is best known for demonstrating the phenomenon of interference, which led him to promote the wave theory of light in opposition to Newton’s then-dominant idea that light was composed of particles.
