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ThomasYoung (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.