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Bookmark or Share- Thomas Young | Double-Slit Experiment, Biography, & FactsThomas Young (born June 13, 1773, Milverton, Somerset, England—died May 10, 1829, London) was an English physician and physicist who 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.
- Light - Wave, Interference, Diffraction | BritannicaThomas 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).
- Who was Thomas Young? - THOMAS YOUNG CENTREToday, Thomas Young is well known as a physicist (compared with Isaac Newton by Albert Einstein): the first to establish – with “Young’s Slits” – the wave nature of light, perhaps his most wonderful legacy, with its modern implications for the nature of quantum mechanics. Young was the materials scientist and engineer who gave us “Young’s Modulus”.
- Thomas Young - New World EncyclopediaThomas Young, English scientist. Thomas Young (June 13, 1773 - May 10, 1829) was a British polymath, a scientist who conclusively demonstrated many of the wave properties of light. He also made a number of other contributions in physics and medicine, and was the first to decipher some of the Egyptian inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone.
- Thomas Young (scientist) - WikipediaThomas 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. He was instrumental in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, specifically the Rosetta Stone .
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