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Thomas Young
Thomas Young 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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science · English polymath (1773–1829) · astronomer · physicist · anthropologist · physician · archaeologist · university teacher · physiologist · entomologist · Egyptologist · musician · also Thomas Young, Thomas Young (scientist), Tomas Yunq, Young
Born 13 June 1773 · Died 10 May 1829 · Q25820
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2026· 4 entries
“scientific investigations are a sort of warfare ... against all one”
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The Guardian: Football Daily | Brian Madjo and the tendency to lump expectations on young shoulders
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The Guardian: Australia’s brightest young talents are on the move and it bodes well for the Socceroos | Jack Snape
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Next Generation 2025: 60 of the best young talents in world football
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2020· 1 entry
Published “SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python” in Nature Methods — cited 36,804 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Porgy and Bess / Blue Monday”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Black Christmas: Spirituals in the African‐American Tradition”.
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1897· 1 entry
“The Century's Progress in Physics”
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1875· 1 entry
“The History of Young's Discovery of the Theory of Colors”
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1830· 1 entry
Carl Friedrich Gauss, the German mathematician, unified the work of these two scientists to derive the Young–Laplace equation, the formula that describes the capillary pressure difference sustained across the interface b
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1829· 3 entries
Died 1829-05-10.
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“When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.”
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Young died in his 56th year in London on 10 May 1829, having suffered recurrent attacks of "asthma".
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1828· 1 entry
Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1827· 1 entry
Was chosen as one of the eight foreign associates of the French Academy of Sciences
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1822· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1822).
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Young (and many others) praised his work
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1816· 1 entry
Was secretary of a commission charged with ascertaining the precise length of the seconds pendulum (the length of a pendulum whose period is exactly two seconds), and in 1818 he became secretary to the Board of Longit
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1813· 2 entries
Introduced the term Indo-European languages, 165 years after the Dutch linguist and scholar Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn proposed the grouping to which this term refers in 1647
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When the work was already in progress among other researchers
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1811· 1 entry
Young became physician to St George's Hospital and, in 1814, he served on a committee appointed to consider the dangers involved in the general introduction of gas for lighting into London
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1808· 1 entry
Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1808).
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1807· 2 entries
And further described it in his Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts
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In the Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and contain a number of anticipations of later theories
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1805· 1 entry
Pierre-Simon Laplace, the French philosopher, discovered the significance of meniscus radii with respect to capillary action
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1804· 2 entries
Young married Eliza Maxwell
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Young developed the theory of capillary phenomena on the principle of surface tension
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1803· 2 entries
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1803).
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Fearing that its duties would interfere with his medical practice
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1802· 1 entry
Was appointed foreign secretary of the Royal Society, of which he had been elected a fellow in 1794
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1801· 2 entries
Was the first to describe astigmatism; and in his lectures he presented the hypothesis, afterwards developed by Hermann von Helmholtz, (the Young–Helmholtz theory), that colour perception depends on the presence in th
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Young was appointed professor of natural philosophy (mainly physics) at the Royal Institution
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1800· 1 entry
“Outlines of Experiments and Inquiries Respecting Sound and Light”
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1798· 1 entry
Studied at Emmanuel College (1797–1798).
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1796· 1 entry
Studied at University of Göttingen (1795–1796).
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1795· 1 entry
Studied at University of Edinburgh (1794–1795).
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1794· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1794).
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Studied at St Bartholomew's Medical College (1792–1794).
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1773· 1 entry
Born 1773-06-13.
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