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Signature. Thomas Young (13 June 1773  10 May 1829) was an English 
polymath and physician. Young ... In 1801 Young was appointed professor of 
natural philosophy (mainly physics) at the Royal Institution. In two years he 
delivered 91... [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Young | British physician and physicist | Britannica.com [PAR] May 12, 2015 ... He discovered the cause of astigmatism in 1801, the same year he turned to the 
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credible articles ... From 1791 to 1801 Young published most of his experiments 
and theories in ... In this paper young clearly demonstrated design and per form 
selicate ... of red green and of green and violet light, and there is reason to 
suspect that... [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Young [PAR] He was professor of natural philosophy from 1801 to 1803 at the Royal Institution. 
... as the Young-Helmholtz theory and described the vision defect called 
Astigmatism. In 1802 Young demonstrated a simple proof of the wave theory of 
light. ... Young found at the light beams spread apart and overlapped, and, in the 
area of... [DOC] [TLE] This Month in Physics History - American Physical Society [PAR] May 1801: Thomas Young's double slit experiment. ... the basic idea for the now-
famous double-slit experiment to demonstrate the interference of light waves. [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Young and the wave theory of light - BibNum [PAR] Thomas Young is considered as a genius and polymath, a man who was ... father 
of the wave theory of light, he was also the first person to decipher a number of 
Egyptian ... while dissecting an ox's eye, that he discovered the accommodation 
mechanism, ... Eye in November, and On the Theory of Light and Colours in 1801
. [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Young's contribution to visual optics: The ... - Journal of Vision [PAR] He is particularly well known for his demonstration of the wave nature of light (
Young, ... It discussed the different theories as to the cause of accommodation 
and presented ... The majority of this later 1801 paper On the mechanism of the 
eye ..... It is not clear why, given his discovery of his own astigmatism, Young did 
not... [DOC] [TLE] Focusing by shape change in the lens of the eye: a commentary on ... [PAR] In his Bakerian Lecture paper of 1801, Thomas Young provided the best account 
... He was wrong, however, in believing that the reason the lens bulges when 
focusing ... Young had demonstrated that changing focus must be the result of 
curvature ... some of the optical theory that he uses later to model the optics of the 
eye. [DOC] [TLE] Atomic Theory timeline | Timetoast timelines [PAR] Thomas Young. Thomas Young. While pursuing his interests in the function of the 
human eye, Young discovered the cause of astigmatism in 1801, which was ... In 
1801, he observed and discovered the law of expansion of gases on heating. ... 
In 1802 Young first demonstrated a simple proof of the wave theory of light. [DOC] [TLE] Thomas young. Nature of light. by Cecilia Banegas on Prezi [PAR] Thomas young had discovered the cause of astigmatism in 1801, in that ... Young 
had demonstrated the nature of light by allowing light to pass through two ... 
When discovering the wave nature of light, Young used his new wave theory of 
light... [DOC] [TLE] Optics 6 - ECE - University of Maryland [PAR] In 1801 Thomas Young discovered the interference of light from adjacent ... of the 
wave theory depended on the experimental proof that light traveled more ... way 
the eye lens changes shape in order to focus and the cause of astigmatism. ... the 
earth's velocity on the speed of light and demonstrate the existence of the ether. [DOC] [TLE] June 13 - Today in Science History

Question: In 1801 Thomas Young found the cause of astigmatism & demonstrated the wave theory of this
Answer: light