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	Thomas Young (scientist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Young belonged to a Quaker family of Milverton, Somerset, where he was born in 1773, the youngest of ten children.
		Young began to study medicine in London in 1792, moved to Edinburgh in 1794, and a year later went to Göttingen, where he obtained the degree of doctor of physics in 1796.
		Young was also one of the first who successfully deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics; by 1814 he had completely translated the "enchorial" (demotic, in modern terms) text of the Rosetta Stone, and a few years later had made considerable progress towards an understanding of the hieroglyphic alphabet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist) (905 words)

	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
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Young (109 words)

	Light I
		Because of Newton’s fame and reputation, many scientists of the 17th and 18th centuries subscribed to the view that light was a particle.
		Thomas Young recognized that if light behaved like a wave it would be possible to create patterns of constructive and destructive interference using light.
		Young realized that the bright spots on his screen occurred where the difference in the length of the path traveled by the beams of light was an integer multiple of the wavelength of the light.
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	Thomas Young: The Last Man Who Knew Everything > Chapter 1: Child Prodigy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Young's father, Thomas Senior, was a mercer (cloth merchant) and banker from the village of Milverton, near Taunton, in the county of Somerset, in the south-west of England, while his mother Sarah was the daughter of a respectable merchant also from Somerset.
		Young himself notes in his autobiographical sketch: "if it was allowable to dwell more on one part than another of holy writ, he was most disposed to be impressed with the importance of that part which conjoins [enjoins?] the votaries of true and undefiled religion, to teach themselves unassisted from the writ."
		Young, by contrast, respected both kinds of evidence—though some of his later critics would say that as a result of this lack of enthusiasm for experiments and his respect for the literature, he did not conduct enough experiments and lacked originality as a thinker.
	www.informit.com /articles/article.asp?p=430836 (4218 words)

	Famous Scientists
		Issac Newton - English mathematician and scientist; developed theory of matter; first to demonstrate the color components of white light with a prism and the reconstruction of these colors into white light with a second prism; researched the optical characteristics of chemical substances; studied gravitation and motion; developed the law of gravitation.
		Thomas Newcomen - He is famous for inventing a steam engine in which steam admitted to a cylinder was condensed by cold water and the piston driven by atmospheric pressure.
		Thomas Graham - Scottish chemist; studied diffusion of gases which led to the formulation of Graham's Law; developed a process to separate crystalloids from colloids, which he named "dialysis"; did research using phosphoric acid; studied diffusion of liquids.
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	Alberta Canada, Waterfowl Hunting, Goose Hunting Duck Hunting with Darrel Wise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Thomas responded favorably to the treatments, and spent all but six weeks of the next three years of his life in the hospital.
		He talked to Thomas and reminded him of the risks and potential complications from the procedure, and inquired if Thomas was certain he wanted to go ahead with the operation.
		Thomas remained at the hospital for three months following the surgery so that he could be kept under observation, receive antirejection medication, and have follow-up operations as necessary.
	www.thewiseman.com /thomas_wish.htm (2365 words)

	The History of Clemson University -- Thomas Green Clemson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Thomas Green Clemson (July 1, 1807-April 6, 1888) is today recognized as the benefactor and founder of a state institution of higher education in South Carolina.
		The young lady of 21 and the scientist who was 10 years older were married in the parlor at Fort Hill, the estate of her politician father, John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina.
		Thomas G. Clemson was privileged to excel in an era that higher education and particularly scientific and agricultural studies were in its infancy in the United States.
	www.clemson.edu /welcome/history/forthill/clemson.htm (2650 words)

	Thomas Young's Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Thomas Young (1773-1829) was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy in 1801 at the recently founded Royal Institution in London.
		Young's original preface (datelined Welbeck Street, 30 March 1807) is also reprinted and forms an elegant and concise introduction to the work.
		Young also knew of Dalton's (1798) description of his colour blindness, which he attributed to "the absence or paralysis of those fibres of their retina which are calculated to perceive red; this supposition explains all the phenomena".
	www.thoemmes.com /science/young_review.htm (1451 words)

	NASA - STS-114 Mission Specialist Andy Thomas: From Down Under to Up and Beyond
		As a young boy, Thomas saw the birth of an era in exploration.
		However, Thomas was an aspirant who knew that his education was the key to his future.
		Thomas' primary responsibility will be to undertake new methods to inspect the orbiter in flight and to verify its integrity for entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
	www.nasa.gov /vision/space/preparingtravel/andrew_thomas_profile.html (834 words)

	HISTORY OF PHYSICS: ON THE POLYMATH THOMAS YOUNG (1773-1829)
		Young pointed out that the dividing of a beam of light into a refracted ray at the interface between two mediums was to be expected from the wave theory but had not been satisfactorily explained on the corpuscular theory.
		And it was Thomas Young who, in 1801, explained astigmatism as resulting from irregularities in the curvature of the cornea.
		The early rejection of Young's wave theory of light by his British contemporaries was due more to chauvinism than to reason: the particle theory of light was essentially British; the wave theory of light was essentially French.
	scienceweek.com /2005/sw051230-1.htm (950 words)

	Re: Thomas Young's Light Experiment
		The red waves are almost two times as long as violet waves and wavelength dependent interference and diffraction phenomena are easily obscured and smeared by this large number of wavelengths in white light, each of ray of which must have the correct phase relative to its neighbor in the beam.
		This is why scientists such as Newton and Young used mirrors to direct sun light into their darkened laboratories for a light source in place of candles.
		Now to observe Youngs interference fringes you will need to tape the tube onto a rigid surface or tripod and align the beam from the single pin hole so that it illuminates the two pin holes on the second diaphragm.
	www.madsci.org /posts/archives/1999-08/933684502.Ph.r.html (1432 words)

	Young's articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cadalso's rhapsodic prose autobiography, Noches lúgubres (1798), probably suggested by Edward Young's Night Thoughts, was a herald of the Spanish romantic movement.
		Young, Lester Willis YOUNG, LESTER WILLIS [Young, Lester Willis] 1909-59, American jazz musician, b.
		Often set in a graveyard, their poems mused on the vicissitudes of life, the solitude of death and the grave, and the anguish of bereavement.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Young's (489 words)

	The Reality Program: Chapter 2
		For another thing, scientists were able to observe that light seemed to travel in straight lines for the most part, and this behavior was most easily explained by reference to particle motion.
		When Young actually performed the experiment in 1802, the result was consistent with possibility #2, i.e., the light at the back screen appeared as a series of stripes.
		Young had not recognized this process because he was throwing billions and trillions of light energy units through the double slits and on to the projection screen at all times.
	www.bottomlayer.com /bottom/reality/chap2.html (7148 words)

	Turkish scientist's discovery of how proteins work
		Some 53 young scientists have so far received the award, honoring exceptional thesis work in the field of molecular biology.
		Their essays were judged on the quality of research and the applicants’ ability to articulate how their work would contribute to the field of molecular biology, which investigates biological processes in terms of the physical and chemical properties of molecules in a cell.
		She holds a long-term fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization and is a research scientist in the laboratory of Michael Koomey at the University of Oslo, Norway.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-02/aaft-tsd020306.php (1350 words)

	Bookreporter.com - SAFEKEEPING by Abigail Thomas
		Thomas, best known for her marvelously witty short stories, turns her brilliant gaze to her own life.
		From her three marriages to her role as a mother to her quest for fulfillment, Thomas lingers on the tragedies and triumphs of her life with utter honesty.
		Thomas believes that motherhood happened simply because she was young, while her sister contends that she wasn't just young but also completely unprepared.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0385720556.asp (894 words)

	Young's modulus articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Young's modulus YOUNG'S MODULUS [Young's modulus] [for Thomas Young ], number representing (in pounds per square inch or dynes per square centimeter) the ratio of stress to strain for a wire or bar of a given substance.
		Young, Thomas YOUNG, THOMAS [Young, Thomas] 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.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/51003.html (206 words)

	Principles leading to contact lenses date to 15th century - Text begins with da Vinci's immersion studies, then covers ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is thought that at the time he did not understand how important his idea and use of his schematic would be in the future, since he never mentioned it.
		Young was the first to set forth the idea of contact lenses (1801).
		He was a broad-based scientist and was also one of the first people to decipher hieroglyphics while working on the Rosetta stone.
	www.ophthalmologytimes.com /ophthalmologytimes/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=126318 (624 words)

	Thomas A. Edison
		THOMAS A. Born in 1847 - Died in 1931
		Thomas Alva Edison was called Alva, or Al by his family.
		Thomas Edison was probably the world's greatest inventor.
	www.gardenofpraise.com /ibdediso.htm (872 words)

	ramé-hart Contact Angle Goniometers
		But first, let us review what surface energy really is. Two hundred years ago the famous British Scientist Thomas Young described surface energy as the interaction between the forces of cohesion and the forces of adhesion which, in turn, dictate if wetting occurs.
		In addition to his studies in surface energy, Young was also quite an expert on light and vision systems.
		Young also developed the well-regarded Young's Modulus which is used to measure the stiffness of a material as well as Young's Equation which defines the balances of forces caused by a wet drop on a dry surface.
	www.ramehart.com /goniometers/newsletters/2006-02_news.htm (822 words)

	Thomas Young
		Young, Thomas, 1773–1829, English physicist, physician, and Egyptologist.
		Young's versatility is evidenced by his contributions to the theory of tides, his participation in the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone (see under
		Young's modulus - Young's modulus [for Thomas Young], number representing (in pounds per square inch or dynes per...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0853151.html (315 words)

	HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN LUDWIG FERDINAND VON. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He contributed to the knowledge of thermodynamics and electrodynamics and studied vortex motion in fluids.
		A pioneer in physiological optics and author of a Treatise on Physiological Optics (1867; tr., 3 vol., 1924–25), he extended Thomas Young’s theory of color vision, explained the mechanism of lens accommodation in the eye, and invented (1851) the ophthalmoscope.
		He was an authority on acoustics, especially on the perception of tone quality, and wrote On the Sensations of Tone (4th ed.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/he/Helmholt.html (157 words)

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		Astrobiology is still a relatively young field, and new ideas may come from the most unexpected places.
		I feel the real audience is not scientists--I think most scientists understand the role of science and religion very well--but religious people, who tend to be very suspicious of science.
		It was only many years later--having had a lot of success as a scientist, having had a good income and having dated someone for five years--that I found myself willing to become a Jesuit in full knowledge of what I would miss.
	www.lyon.edu /projects/marsbugs/2000/20000331.txt (6390 words)

	Amazon.com: The Last Man Who Knew Everything : Thomas Young, The Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This thoroughly researched biography is as scattered in topics as Young's varied interests, but Robinson successfully portrays a genius who lived in a time when the fields of knowledge were fertile for new discoveries.
		Physics textbooks identify Thomas Young (1773-1829) as the experimenter who first proved that light is a wave--not a stream of corpuscles as Newton proclaimed.
		Although, as specified by the author, this is not meant to be a full biography of Thomas Young, this book certainly does give the reader an excellent perspective of the man, his many activities and his times.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131343041?v=glance (1592 words)

	Thomas Jefferson
		Thomas Jefferson wanted the 13 colonies to become a nation.
		Thomas Jefferson died 50 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
		Young readers will enjoy discovering the life of Thomas Jefferson on their own through humorous watercolors and informative, easy-to-read text.
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	Articles: Teachers and Students
		Young Scientist award winner Aaron Atkinson knows a thing or two about coming of age.
		As part of the Young Scientist award, Atkinson will receive a $5,000 scholarship and be invited to discuss his research at a national forum for biotechnology.
		In her letter recommending Atkinson for the Young Scientist award, Mary Lou Guerinot, vice provost and biological sciences professor at Dartmouth, commented on how much Atkinson has grown since entering Dartmouth.
	www.whybiotech.com /index.asp?id=4486 (1079 words)

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