Thomas Young (scientist)
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Thomas Young | |
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| Born | 13 Juin 1773 Milverton, Somerset, Ingland |
| Died | 10 Mey 1829 (aged 55) Lunnon, Ingland |
| Alma mater | Varsity o Edinburgh Medical School Varsity o Göttingen Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
| Kent for | Wave theory o licht Dooble-slit experiment Astigmatism Young–Helmholtz theory Young temperament Young's Modulus |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pheesics Pheesiology Egyptology |
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Thomas Young FRS (13 Juin 1773 – 10 Mey 1829) wis a Breetish polymath an physeecian. Young made notable scienteefic contreibutions tae the fields o veesion, licht, solit mechanics, energy, pheesiology, leid, muisical hermony, an Egyptology. He "made a nummer o oreeginal an insichtfu innovations"[1] in the decipherment o Egyptian hieroglyphs (speceefically the Rosetta Stane) afore Jean-François Champollion eventually expandit on his wark.
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