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Thomas Young

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Thomas Young 1773-1829, English physicist, physician, and Egyptologist. He established (1799) a medical practice in London and was elected (1811) to the staff of St. George's Hospital there. His lectures while professor of natural philosophy (1801-3) at the Royal Institution, London, published as A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807), introduced the modern physical concept of energy. An authority on the mechanism of vision and on optics, he stated (1807) a theory of color vision now known as the Young-Helmholtz theory, studied the structure of the eye,... Read more
Young, Thomas
World Encyclopedia Young, Thomas (1773–1829) English physicist ... Christiaan Huygens . He helped present the Young-Helmholtz theory of colour vision and ... giving his name to the tensile elastic (Young's) modulus. Young was also an Egyptologist who helped ... Read more
Thomas Young
Encyclopedia of World Biography Thomas Young The English physicist Thomas Young (1773-1829) is best known for his double-slit interference ... light and for the elastic modulus named for him. Concerning Thomas Young, the noted physicist Sir Humphry Davy wrote: "He was a most ... Read more

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