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  Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Thomas Young -
Thomas Young (1773-1829) was an English scientist and researcher.
Young belonged to a Quaker family of Milverton, Somerset[?], where he was born on the June 13, 1773, the youngest of ten children.
Young is perhaps best known for his work in physical optics, as the author of a remarkable series of researches which did much to establish the wave theory of light, and as the discoverer of the interference of light.
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 Thomas Young   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas Young was born in Milverton on 13 June 1773 and died in London on 10 May 1829.
Young’s interest in this was reinforced by some work he had done in the mid-1790s on the transmission of sound, which he came to believe was analogous to light.
Young’s inability to sustain over time a consistent view of the nature of light and of the aether, together with some vituperative attacks on his work by Henry Brougham, contributed to his theoretical work’s getting little attention, though the principle of interference was viewed widely as an important discovery.
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 Young, Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1793, Young recognized that focusing of the eye (accommodation) is achieved by a change of shape in the lens of the eye, the lens being composed of muscle fibres.
Young assumed that light waves are propagated in a similar way to sound waves, and proposed that different colours consist of different frequencies.
In mechanics, Young was the first to use the terms 'energy' for the product of the mass of a body with the square of its velocity and 'labour expended' for the product of the force exerted on a body 'with the distance through which it moved'.
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 THOMAS YOUNG - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS YOUNG
Young is perhaps best known for his work in physical optics, as the author of a remarkable series of researches which did much to establish the undulatory theory of light, and as the discoverer of the interference of light (see INTERFERENCE).
The object of such associations is to provide in large towns a rendezvous for young men who are compelled to live in lodgings or in the apartments provided by the great business houses.
In 1877 the two branches united in the Young Womens Christian Association, which seeks to promote the all-round welfare of young women by means of residential and holiday homes, club rooms, restaurants, noon rest rooms, classes and lectures, and other useful departments.
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 Thomas Young (www.whonamedit.com)
Thomas Young established the principle of interference of light and thus resurrected the century-old wave theory of light.
Thomas Young's father was a banker and Young was brought up as a Quaker.
Young found that the light beams spread apart and overlapped, and, in the area of overlap, bands of bright light alternated with bands of darkness.
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 Biography of Thomas K. Young
Thomas Young was born in Fayette Co., West Virignia, a son of William Wilson and Elizabeth (Kay) Young, natives of Scotland, he born in Edinburgh and she in Lanark and she survives and is living with her son, Dr. Young.
Young attended the public school of Royal, West Virginia and the West Virginia state Normal School at Athens and later became a student of Hampden Sidney College, Virignia from which he graduated in 1908 with a degree Bachelor of Arts.
Young was married on Sept. 21, 1907 to Miss Harriett Rebecca Cox, who was born in Farmville Va and educated in the Virignia State Normal School.
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 AllRefer.com - Thomas Young (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Thomas Young 1773–1829, English physicist, physician, and Egyptologist.
He established (1799) a medical practice in London and was elected (1811) to the staff of St. George's Hospital there.
Young's versatility is evidenced by his contributions to the theory of tides, his participation in the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone (see under Rosetta), which provided a key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphic writings, his explanation (1804) of capillarity (independently set forth by Laplace in 1805), and his establishment of a coefficient of elasticity, Young's modulus.
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Whereas Thomas Young was seized on 27 May last past (1688) of land in Hartly in gavelkind tenure, and of a considerable personal estate.
Whereas she well knows Thomas Young was of sound mind and had given instructions to attorney and he said he did not want the lands to be divided equally because Thomas Young junior had already been provided for in other lands.
She agrees Thomas Young had fee simple lands in Kent, but as daughter of his brother dying during his father's lifetime she is entitled to share with her uncle the lands and personal possessions.
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 THOMAS YOUNG (SCIENTIST) FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas Young (June_13, 1773 – May_10, 1829) was an English scientist and researcher.
Young belonged to a Quaker family of Milverton, Somerset, where he was born in 1773, the youngest of ten children.
Young also devised Young's_modulus, a measure of the stiffness of a material.
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 William I. Thomas - Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
WILLIAM I. Thomas was born in Russell County, an isolated region of old Virginia, on August 13, 1863.
Young Thomas spent his childhood and early adolescence with the mountain people, sharing their passionate interest in shooting and hunting.
Thomas considered withdrawing his name under these circumstances and was only persuaded to stay in the race by Ernest Burgess who assured him that the Young Turks, Louis Wirth, George Lundberg, Stuart Chapin, Stuart Rice, Kimball Young and others, would mobilize their younger colleagues on his behalf.
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 Surgical Technician, Vivien T. Thomas
Vivien T. Thomas was a key player in pioneering the anastomosis of the subclavian artery to the pulmonary artery.The surgical work he performed with Alfred Blalock paved the way for the successful outcome of the Blalock-Taussig shunt.
In January 1930, Vivien Thomas, a young African-American who was forced for lack of funds to leave his first year of college, came to work for Blalock in his laboratory.
Thomas supervised the surgical laboratories at Hopkins for over 35 years, and in 1976 he was appointed instructor in surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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 Thomas Young
Thomas Young was born in Milverton, Somerset in 1773 and died in London 1829.
Young's inability to sustain over time a consistent view of the nature of light and of the aether, together with some vituperative attacks on his work by Henry Brougham, contributed to little attention being paid to his theoretical work, though the principle of interference was viewed widely as an important discovery.
However, the historical work of William Whewell in the 1830s gave an importance to Young's views which they did not warrant; it is only in recent times that Young's work has been properly contextualised.
physics.rug.ac.be /Fysica/Geschiedenis/Mathematicians/Young.html   (772 words)

  
 National Officers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tom Young's re-election by acclamation to a third term as Director of Health Benefits followed eight years of steady-handed, pragmatic guidance that helped keep the NALC Health Benefit Plan on an even keel.
Young also was an officer of the California State Association, ultimately serving as president from 1978 to 1982.
An avid fan of the national pastime, Young is a board member of the booster club for the Potomac Cannons Class A minor league baseball team.
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 Young_biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Young's experiments were highly supportive of the wave-like nature of light and so cast serious doubts on the corpuscular theory.
Thomas Young was born into 'comfortable circumstances' at Milverton, England on June 13, 1773, towards the end of a period known as the Intellectual Revolution.
Young was a precocious child who could read fluently at the age of two and read widely the classics.
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 Thomas Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Young, M.A., Master of Jesus College, Cambridge 1644-50
Thomas Young VC, the recipient of the Victoria Cross
Thomas Young, the Baptist Evangelist from Piedmont, Oklahoma
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 Thomas Edison: Biography
Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847.
When young Thomas was six, he started a fire in his father's barn and burned it to the ground.
Thomas was sad, but a short time after, he married a young woman named Mina Miller.
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 Young   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas Young was an English physician and physicist, with a brilliant mind and eclectic interests.
His famous double-slit experiment established that light was a wave motion, although this conclusion was strongly opposed by contemporary scientists who believed that Newton, who had proposed that light was corpuscular in nature, could not possibly be wrong.
He did work in surface tension, elasticity (Young's modulus, a measure of the rigidity of materials, is named after him), and gave one of the earliest scientific definitions of energy.
www.upscale.utoronto.ca /PHY100F/young.htm   (308 words)

  
 Rev. Samuel Young Thomas, 1797-1880   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His associate laborers, during this time, were A.M. Young, Robert Tate, and George Donnell, and from information given by father Thomas in his autobiography, we learn that their labors were not in vain in the Lord.
Father Thomas was ordained by the Lebanon Presbytery in September, 1827, after which he returned to East Tennessee and spent about six months in preaching and organizing churches; and, no doubt, many of those churches still prosper, and, perhaps, some of the original members still live and bless the days of his ministrations amongst them.
Father Thomas was present at the meeting of the General Synod in 1828, which passed the resolution to organize a General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and voted in favor of the Assembly.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Young Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Young, Thomas (1773-1829), British physicist, doctor, and Egyptologist, best known for his outstanding contributions in the field of optics.
He was notable for his training of young actors.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog marks a sea change to realist, often humorous stories comprising a “provincial autobiography”, while still...
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 Dr. Thomas Young   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas Young (1732-99) of the Hudson Valley, New England, and Philadelphia, lived in Albany during the mid-1760s.
Thomas Young was born in New Windsor (then Ulster County) in February 1732.
Sources: The life of Thomas Young is CAP biography number 6972.
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 The Young Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The biggest claim to fame (not very big however) was the selection of Abraham and William Young's land by George Washington in 1791 as part of the country's new capital, Washington, DC.
William Young came to America prior to 1696 from the Sherrifdom of Dumfries in Scotland.
Samuel Wade Young, the son of Abraham moved to Loudoun County, VA in 1803 and his son, Thomas Jefferson Young, moved to Adams County, OH in 1843.
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 Jesse Thomas Young
Jesse Thomas Young was born in September 16, 1822 in South Carolina.
Jesse Thomas Young remarried in 1859, the fate of Eliza is unknown.
Jesse Thomas Young died in Drew county Arkansas, September 16, 1914 at age 92 and was buried in the New Troy cemetery.
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 School Assemblies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas Young is in high demand as a motivational speaker to students.
Young's message "we are responsible to ourselves and for our actions" is very important for all students to hear.
Young took time at the end of his presentation to meet with individual students and discussed their personal issues.
www.youngendeavors.org /school.htm   (524 words)

  
 Clarence Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As a young student, Thomas entered the College of the Holy Cross, a Jesuit institution in Massachusetts, after the school began a fl recruitment program.
Thomas was the beneficiary of a similar minority program a few years later at Yale Law School.
Thomas also ended the use of class action suits that relied on statistical evidence of discriminatory effects.
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 Men's Fashion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thomas longed to be a young aristocrat, to hold a lady on his arm and fall in love.
Thomas overheard his father and the man discussing that he needed an escort to a courtly gala for that evening, becasue his coachman was ill. Thomas' father recommended that Thomas take the gentleman.
For even though Thomas knew he would be the tailor's son when he left the party, he knew what it was like to be an aristocrat, in love, for a few hours.
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 Thomas Young   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1807 he developed a theory of color vision known 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.
With this Young established the wave nature of light which he used to explain the colors on thin films, such as soap bubbles.
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 Young, Thomas --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Young's modulus is a measure of the ability of a material to...
Its author, Thomas Gray, wrote relatively little, but his pureness of expression made him one of the foremost poets of the mid-18th century.
Although Brigham Young was not originally a proponent of polygamy, he eventually married seventy women and fathered fifty-six children.
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 Daivd Harries Young
This is a summary of an 1886-1887 proceedings in the Surrogate’s Court of Suffolk County for an accounting by the material grandfather, Reverend Thomas Harries, of the property of his ward and grandson, David Harries Young.
Young recalled another occasion when he was visiting the parsonage on Shelter Island and the Reverend Harries took him out to the barn to observe the changes that David had made.
9 Thomas Young was born in Franklinville in the town of Southold on January 10, 1840.
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This is the story of an Irishman, Thomas Meagher, who was almost hanged and had his body chopped into four pieces by the British government, for his politics, and who went on to become Governor of Montana, USA.
Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish nationalist, and later transported convict, escapee, American Civil War general, and Governor of Montana.
One of the Young Irelanders who came to prominence, at a young age, was Thomas Meagher.
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 Thomas Young Is New University Provost - Clarkson Integrator - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In making the announcement, Collins said, "Professor Young has distinguished himself as a committed teacher, researcher, and administrator and is widely recognized on campus for his administrative skills.
Young has more than 150 professional presentations and over 100 peer-reviewed articles and technical publications to his credit, is a past recipient of the Chandler-Misener Award from the International Association for Great Lakes Research, and has twice received the Excellence in Engineering Education Award from MWH Soft.
Young received a B.A. degree in fisheries biology, an M.S. degree in sanitary engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and his Ph.D. degree in fisheries and wildlife from Michigan State University.
www.clarksonintegrator.com /news/2005/02/21/News/Thomas.Young.Is.New.University.Provost-870542.shtml   (417 words)

  
 Thomas Young
Young's versatility is evidenced by his contributions to the theory of tides, his participation in the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone (see under
Thomas Young FITZPATRICK - FITZPATRICK, Thomas Young (1850—1906) FITZPATRICK, Thomas Young, a Representative from...
Innovative Systems appoints Ernst and Young Veteran Thomas V. Fritz as Chairman of the Board; 33 year veteran of Ernst and Young, Thomas Fritz joins Innovative Systems as Chairman of the Board to drive global expansion.
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