Thomas Young (∗June 13, 1773, in Melverton, Somerset, England; †May 10, 1829, in London, England) was a polymath and physicist who made contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology.
Education
Young studied medicine in London at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1792; later he moved to the University of Edinburgh (Medical School) in 1794 and a year later for finalizing his studies went to Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Here he obtained the degree of doctor of medicine in 1796. In 1797 he entered the Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Scientific and Professional Career
In 1801 he became his first professorship (natural philosophy – mainly physics) at the Royal Institution. In 1802, he was appointed as the foreign secretary of the Royal Society. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1794. He resigned his professorship in 1803 and focused his attention more on medical practice. In 1811, Young became...
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Altenbach, H. (2018). Young, Thomas. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_47-1
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