Thomas Young(1773-1829)

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

TurkishPersian

Greek

Latin

Italian

Amharic

HebrewChaldean SamaritanFrench

Syriac

Arabic

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

Thomas Young – The Physicist

Was the major contributor to the wave theory of light!

The Double Slit Experiment

References

1. Portrait Image from http://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/PHY100F/young.htm

2. All biographical information taken from www.wikipedia.org

3. 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