Thomas Young

Thomas Young FRS (13 Jun 1773 - 10 Mei 1829) ialah seorang ahli polimat dan doktor Inggeris. Young membuat sumbangan saintifik yang ketara kepada bidang visi, cahaya, mekanik pepejal, tenaga, fisiologi, bahasa, harmoni muzik, dan Egiptologi. Beliau "membuat beberapa inovasi asal dan berwawasan" dalam penjelasan hieroglif Mesir (khususnya Batu Rosetta) sebelum Jean-François Champollion akhirnya berkembang dalam karyanya. Beliau telah disebutkan, antaranya, William Herschel, Hermann von Helmholtz, James Clerk Maxwell, dan Albert Einstein. Young telah digambarkan sebagai "Manusia terakhir yang mengetahui segalanya".

Rujukan

Bacaan lanjut

 - The link is to a pdf version of the paper.
 
 
 
 Reviewed by Nicholas Shakespeare in The Telegraph , 24 September 2006.
 Reviewed by Michael Bywater in The New Statesman, 13 November 2006.
 Reviewed  by Simon Singh in The Telegraph , 26 November 2006.
 Reviewed by Rosemary Hill in The Times, 10 December 2006.
 Reviewed by PD Smith in The Guardian, 20 January 2007.
 - Discusses Young's theoretical and experimental work on interference

 
 Young's account of his hieroglyphic research. (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2010. )

Pautan luar

 ABC Radio International program (Ockham's Razor) on Thomas Young – available for download and streaming (as of 9 July 2006)
 Young's 1802 Royal Institution lectures, published 1809, for online or .pdf reading. Available 2 November 2014.

Kelahiran 1773
Kematian 1829
Ahli fizik Inggeris
Ahli fisiologi Inggeris
Alumni Universiti Göttingen
Quaker Inggeris