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, ...

4 days ago · English physician and physicist who established the principle of interference of light and thus resurrected the century-old wave theory of light.

Physics textbooks identify Thomas Young (1773-1829) as the experimenter who first proved that light is a wave--not a stream of corpuscles as Newton proclaimed.

Thomas Young is a Grammy and Clio-award winning American lyric tenor. His first appearance at New York City Opera was in the roles of Street and Elijah Muhammed

The evidence suggests that Young's early detailed study of the Rosetta Stone created the conceptual framework that made possible Champollion's later ...

Thomas Young was an English physician and a physicist who was responsible for many important theories and discoveries in optics and in human anatomy.

Thomas Young was an English mathematician and physicist best known for Young's modulus and his work on interference. Thumbnail of Thomas Young View two larger ...

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 ...

In 1801 Thomas Young presented a serious challenge to Newton's ideas on the nature of light. Young was a true polymath, with interests ranging from physics to ...

Thomas Young was an English physician and physicist, with a brilliant mind and eclectic interests. By the age of fourteen it is said that he was acquainted ...