THOMAS

See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• THOMAS YOUNG (1773-1829)

YOUNG (1773-1829)  , English man of science, belonged to a Quaker family of Milverton, Somerset, where he was born on the 13th of June 1773, the youngest of ten children . At the age of fourteen he was acquainted with Latin, Greek, French, Italian, Hebrew, Persian' and Arabic . Beginning to study medicine in London in 1792, he removed to Edinburgh in 1794, and a year later went to Gottingen, where he obtained the degree of doctor of physic in 1796 . In 1797 he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge . In the same year the death of his grand-uncle, Richard Brocklesby, made him financially independent, and in 1799 he established himself as a physician in Welbeck Street, London . Appointed in 18o1 professor of physics at the Royal Institution, in two years he delivered ninety-one lectures . These lectures, printed in 1807 (Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy), contain a remark-able number of anticipations of later theories .