Thomas Young (scientist)

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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1. When was Thomas Young (scientist) born?June 13, 1773
2. When did Thomas Young (scientist) die?May 10, 1829 (age 55)
3. Where was Thomas Young (scientist) born?Milverton, Somerset, England
4. What is the education?Studied medicine at Edinburgh and Göttingen, qualified as a physician in London
5. What did Thomas Young discover about light?Thomas Young proved that light behaves like waves. He showed this by creating bright and dark bands when light passed through two close slits.
6. How did Thomas Young help us read Egyptian hieroglyphs?He noticed some hieroglyphs were phonetic, meaning they sounded like words. By comparing them with Greek names on the Rosetta Stone, he identified the symbols for Ptolemy and Berenice.

Wave-Particle Duality: The concept that light and matter can exhibit properties of both waves and particles.
Diffraction: The bending of waves as they pass through an opening or around an obstacle.
Hieroglyphs: The formal writing system used in ancient Egypt, consisting of pictorial symbols.
Cartouche: An oval frame enclosing the hieroglyphs of a royal name, used in ancient Egypt.