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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.
The Last Man Who Knew Everything (2006), written by Andrew Robinson, is a biography of the British polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829). [1]This biography is subtitled Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius, which gives a very brief idea of Young's polymathic career.
From a book published in 1807 relating lectures given by Young in 1802 to London's Royal Institution. While studying medicine at Göttingen in the 1790s, Young wrote a thesis on the physical and mathematical properties of sound [4] and in 1800, he presented a paper to the Royal Society (written in 1799) where he argued that light was also a wave motion.
[3] [4] [5] Thomas Young's experiment with light was part of classical physics long before the development of quantum mechanics and the concept of wave–particle duality. He believed it demonstrated that the Christiaan Huygens' wave theory of light was correct, and his experiment is sometimes referred to as Young's experiment [6] or Young's ...
The Thomas Young Centre (TYC) is an alliance of London research groups working on the theory and simulation of materials (TSM). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] It ...
Thomas Young (scientist) (1773–1829), British polymath, scientist and Egyptologist; Thomas Crane Young (1858-1934), American architect; Thomas Young (entrepreneur) (1895–1971), founder of YESCO, a Las Vegas corporation, in 1920; Thomas Daniel Young (1919–1997), American professor of Southern literature; Tommie Young (born 1949), U.S ...
Thomas Young - the first to use the term "energy" to refer to kinetic energy in its modern sense, in 1802. In the history of physics , the history of energy examines the gradual development of energy as a central scientific concept.
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