He is Thomas Young, an English doctor and physicist, and one of the founders of the wave theory of light.
Genius can be seen from an early age.
Thomas Young learned to read when he was two years old; At the age of 4, he can recite excellent works of English poets and Latin poems; Before he was 6 years old, he had read the Bible twice and learned to make sentences in Latin. At the age of 9, I mastered lathe technology and could make some physical instruments by myself. A few years later, he learned calculus and made a microscope and telescope. Before 14, he had mastered many languages of 10, including Greek, Italian, French and so on.
But he's not enough. Six years later, he learned oriental languages: Hebrew, Persian and * * *.
After all his skills were completed, he began to expand in other directions. Influenced by his uncle who is a doctor, he went to London to study medicine. At the age of 265,438+0, he became a member of the Royal Society and received his doctorate only one year later. Since then, he has been practicing medicine in London and devoted himself to scientific research.
After becoming a doctor, Thomas Young became interested in physics again and studied it day and night.
As we all know, Newton once put forward in "Optical Papers" that light is composed of particles. In the next hundred years, people's understanding of optics almost stagnated until the birth of Thomas Young.
Like Leonardo da Vinci, he was a versatile player who could play almost all the instruments at that time, and he was also very good at acoustics. So he began to guess, is light a wave similar to sound waves?
The interference of two ripples will lead to a special phenomenon, which inspires him to think that light is also fluctuating, so Newton's Young's double-slit interference experiment was made.
This famous experiment has now entered the middle school physics textbook. In addition, Thomas Young was the first to measure the wavelengths of seven kinds of light and established the principle of three primary colors: all colors can be obtained from the three primary colors of red, green and blue.
Thomas Young is also very good at elasticity. In order to commemorate his contribution, later generations called the longitudinal elastic modulus Young's modulus.
After people overthrew Newton's theory and completed the leap from medicine to physics, they began to toss about linguistics again.
At the age of 4 1, he became interested in hieroglyphics again. At that time, he cracked the Rosetta Stone, which was almost a gobbledygook. This monument was discovered by Napoleon during his expedition to Egypt and then transported to London. It is said that it was erected during the sacrifice of the Egyptian king in the 2nd century BC. There are 14 lines of hieroglyphics on it, 32 lines of secular characters in the middle and 54 lines of ancient Greek characters below.
It has been studied before, but there is no progress. Results Thomas Young unscrambled the middle and lower 86 lines at once, deciphered 9 names of 13 members of the royal family, and pointed out that it was a high-level script with both phonetic and ideographic meanings.
Later, he became interested in archaeology. Because of this achievement of Thomas Young, a new discipline was born to study ancient Egyptian civilization.
In his later years, the man of God began to study art again, like music, art and acrobatics, making astronomical equipment and studying insurance economy.
For him, ordinary people's life goals and pursuits can only reach the peak with their hands and feet. If it is a little harder, he can use his brain to solve the big problems of human research. It can only be said that such people either bring their own cheats or are alien creatures, and they will never be people like us.
1829, Thomas Young, who was full of energy all his life, died at the age of 56. He was writing an Egyptian dictionary before he died.