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Young, Thomas
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Physicist, born in Somersetshire, of Quaker parents; studied medicine at home and abroad; renounced Quakerism, and began practice in London in 1800; was next year appointed professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution, 1802; made Secretary of the Royal Society, and was afterwards nominated for other important appointments; his principal work is a "Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts," published in 1807, in which he propounded the undulatory theory of light, and the principle of the interference of rays; the hieroglyphic inscriptions of Egypt occupied much of his attention, and he is credited with having anticipated Champollion in discovering the key to them (1773-1829).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Young, Thomas'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/y/young-thomas.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Young, Thomas'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/y/young-thomas.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
