Thomas Young
1773 CE–1829 CE · Milverton
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.
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- William Herschel· 1738 CE–1822 CE
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck· 1744 CE–1829 CE
- Alessandro Volta· 1745 CE–1827 CE
- Pierre-Simon Laplace· 1749 CE–1827 CE
- Edward Jenner· 1749 CE–1823 CE
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- John Dalton· 1766 CE–1844 CE
- Joseph Fourier· 1768 CE–1830 CE
- Georges Cuvier· 1769 CE–1832 CE
- Alexander von Humboldt· 1769 CE–1859 CE
- André-Marie Ampère· 1775 CE–1836 CE
- Amedeo Avogadro· 1776 CE–1856 CE
- Carl Friedrich Gauss· 1777 CE–1855 CE
- Humphry Davy· 1778 CE–1829 CE
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac· 1778 CE–1850 CE
- Jons Jacob Berzelius· 1779 CE–1848 CE
- Siméon Denis Poisson· 1781 CE–1840 CE
- Friedrich Bessel· 1784 CE–1846 CE
- Joseph von Fraunhofer· 1787 CE–1826 CE
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel· 1788 CE–1827 CE
- Georg Ohm· 1789 CE–1854 CE
- Sadi Carnot· 1796 CE–1832 CE
- Niels Henrik Abel· 1802 CE–1829 CE
- Évariste Galois· 1811 CE–1832 CE
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- William IV· 1765 CE–1837 CE
- Alexander I· 1777 CE–1825 CE
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- Sacagawea· 1788 CE–1812 CE
- Black Hawk (Makataimeshekiakiak)· 1767 CE–1838 CE
- Agustín de Iturbide· 1783 CE–1824 CE
- Dingane· –1840 CE
- Charles X· 1757 CE–1836 CE
- Tenskwatawa (the Prophet)· 1775 CE–1836 CE
- George IV· 1762 CE–1830 CE
- Andrew Jackson· 1767 CE–1845 CE
- Sequoyah· 1770 CE–1843 CE
- Simón Bolívar· 1783 CE–1830 CE
- Napoleon Bonaparte· 1769 CE–1821 CE
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