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Thomas Young

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Gender Male
Death195 years ago
Date of birth June 13,1773
Zodiac sign Gemini
Born Milverton
United Kingdom
Date of died May 10,1829
DiedLondon
United Kingdom
Spouse Eliza Maxwell
Known for Light
Young's interference experiment
Astigmatism
Young–Helmholtz theory
Young temperament
Young's modulus
Job Physician
Physicist
Archaeologist
Height 180 (cm)
Weight 104 (kg)
Influenc William Herschel
James Clerk Maxwell
Albert Einstein
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Jean-François Champollion
Awards Royal Society Bakerian Medal
Fellow of the Royal Society
Parents Thomas Young Sr.
Dai Young
Sarah Davis
Olympic medalAthletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metres T38
Education University of Edinburgh Queens Medical Research Institute
Field Egyptology
AlbumsGershwin: Selections from Porgy and Bess & Blue Monday
A Star in the East - A Spiritual Christmas
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ID440118

Miscellaneous Works of the Late Thomas Young . . .
The Bakerian Lecture On the Mechanism of the Eye : Read November 27, 1800
An Account of Some Recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature and Egyptian Antiquities: Including the Author's Original Alphabet, as Extended by Mr. Champollion, with a Translation of Five Unpublished Greek and Egyptian Manuscripts
Rudiments of an Egyptian Dictionary in the Ancient Enchorial Character: Containing All the Words of which the Sense Has Been Ascertained
A compendious grammar of the Egyptian language. With an appendix consisting of the Rudiments of a dictionary of the ancient Egyptian language in the enchorial character, 3 by T. Young
A Compendious Grammar of the Egyptian Language as Contained in the Coptic and Sahidic Dialects, with Observations on the Bashmuric: Together with Alphabets and Numerals in the Hieroglyphic and Enchorial Characters and a Few Explanatory Observations
Down and Out in Macon and Tucson
The Bakerian Lecture. on the Mechanism of the Eye. - Scholar's Choice Edition
Hieroglyphics
100 Common Misconceptions about on the Banks of Plum Creek
A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts: In Two Volumes
A Compendious Grammar of the Egyptian Language. with an Appendix Consisting of the Rudiments of a Dictionary of the Ancient Egyptian Language in the Enchorial Character, 3 by T. Young - Scholar's Choice Edition
A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts
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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. He was instrumental in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, specifically the Rosetta Stone.

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