Thomas Young (scientist)
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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Born | 13 Juin 1773 Milverton, Somerset, Ingland |
Dee'd | 10 Mey 1829 Lunnon, Ingland | (aged 55)
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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