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Thomas Young

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Thomas Young

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Also known as Tomas Yunq

English polymath (1773-1829)

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Thomas Young (1773–1829) was a British astronomer, physicist, anthropologist, and physician. Born in Milverton and educated at the University of Edinburgh, Emmanuel College, and the University of Göttingen, he held a Doctor of Philosophy degree. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the French Academy of Sciences. His fields of work included physics, mechanics, linguistics, and materials science.

Young received the Croonian Medal and Lecture and was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in London. His religious affiliations included Quakers and Anglicanism. He wrote in English and is described in sources such as the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.

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Person · Open Library

Works
25

Top works

  • Viking mission to Mars
  • Digital Marketing in the Age of AI
  • Cormac Mccarthy and the Geology of Being
  • Die with Memories, Not Dreams
  • Summer Land

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Canada
Active from
1945
2008 universal fire victimbluescanadianclassic rockcontemporary folkcountry

Discography

Member of

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
473
Total plays
4,779

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method

    · 2001 · cited 163,234x

  2. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

    · 2021 · cited 85,040x

  3. U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation

    · 2015 · cited 59,891x

  4. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

    · 2012 · cited 51,063x

  5. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

    · 2004 · cited 44,326x

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Quotes

  • “A permanent alteration of form limits the strength of materials with regard to practical purposes, almost as much as fracture; since, in general, the force which is capable of producing this effect is sufficient, with a small addition, to increase it till fracture takes place.”
  • “I have resolved to confine my studies and my pen to medical subjects only. For the talents which God has not given me, I am not responsible, but those which I possess, I have hitherto cultivated and employed as diligently as my opportunities have allowed me to do ; and I shall continue to apply them with assiduity, and in tranquillity, to that profession which has constantly been the ultimate object of all my labours.”
  • “When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.”
  • “The well known elevation of the pitch of wind instruments, in the course of playing, sometimes amounting to half a note, is not, as is commonly supposed, owing to any expansion of the instrument, for this should produce a contrary effect, but to the increased warmth of the air in the tube.”
  • “It may hereafter be considered how far the excellent experiments of Count Rumford, which tend very greatly to weaken the evidence of the modern doctrine of heat, may be more or less favourable to one or the other system of light and colours.”
  • “The fundamental doctrines of motion have [herein]... been more immediately referred to axioms simply mathematical than has hitherto been usual; and the application of these doctrines to practical purposes has [herein]... been facilitated.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Thomas Young (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. He was instrumental in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, specifically the Rosetta Stone.

Young's work influenced that of William Herschel, Hermann von Helmholtz, James Clerk Maxwell, and Albert Einstein. Young is credited with establishing Christiaan Huygens' wave theory of light, in contrast to the corpuscular theory of Isaac Newton. Young's work was subsequently supported by the work of Augustin-Jean Fresnel.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thomas Young” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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