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Noun

1. thomas young, young

British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)

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Thomas Young

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British physician, physicist, and linguist who did experiments demonstrating the wave nature of light, investigated how the human eye focuses and senses color, and helped decipher the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone.

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