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Thomas Young

Thomas Young. (1773-1829). Greek. Italian. Latin. Amharic. Syriac. Arabic. Persian. Chaldean. French. Turkish. Hebrew. Samaritan. Thomas Young – The Student. Born in Milverton, Somerset, England The youngest of ten children At the age of 14 he spoke 13 languages

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Thomas Young

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  1. Thomas Young (1773-1829)

  2. Greek Italian Latin Amharic Syriac Arabic Persian Chaldean French Turkish Hebrew Samaritan Thomas Young – The Student • Born in Milverton, Somerset, England • The youngest of ten children • At the age of 14 he spoke 13 languages • Studied medicine in London, Edinburgh and Göttingen • In 1797 entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge

  3. Thomas Young – The Professional • Primarily worked as a physician • In 1801 appointed to a professorship at the Royal Institute • Foreign Secretary to the Royal Society • Physician to St. George’s Hospital • Secretary of the Board of Longitude • Superintendent of the HM Nautical Almanac Office • One of eight foreign associates of the French Academy of Sciences

  4. Thomas Young – The Physicist The Double Slit Experiment Was the major contributor to the wave theory of light!

  5. References • Portrait Image from http://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/PHY100F/young.htm • All biographical information taken from www.wikipedia.org • Other images are from respective institutional websites: http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/, www.royalsoc.ac.uk, http://www.academie-sciences.fr/actualites/nouvelles_gb.htm

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