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Categories: 1773 births, Articles with short description, University of Göttingen alumni, Fellows of the Royal Society, Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Young  Thomas Young
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British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829) WordNet 3.0
English:
physicist
scientist
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British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Thomas Young FRS was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. Wikipedia
British polymath, scientist and Egyptologist Wikipedia Disambiguation
English polymath Wikidata
IS A
Egyptologist
physicist
homo
ACADEMIC DEGREE
Doctor of Philosophy
AWARD RECEIVED
Fellow of the Royal Society
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Obalky knih.cz
EDUCATED AT
University of Göttingen
University of Edinburgh
Emmanuel College
St George's, University of London
ZH
尼姆应用科技学院
EMPLOYER
Royal Society
FAMILY NAME
Young
FIELD OF WORK
linguistics
mechanics
physics
materials science
GIVEN NAME
Thomas
Tomas
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
+1 relations
NOTABLE WORK
Young's modulus
double-slit experiment
OCCUPATION
anthropologist
astronomer
doctor
musician
philosopher
+7 relations
PLACE OF BIRTH
Milverton, Somerset
PLACE OF DEATH
London
RELIGION
Religious Society of Friends
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIGNIFICANT EVENT
Young's interference experiment
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Young, Thomas Young
Wikipedia
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Thomas Young (scientist)
Wikidata
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Thomas Young
Wikipedia Redirections
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Thomas Young (physicist)
Wikidata Alias
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Tomas Yunq

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