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English noun: Thomas Young

1. Thomas Young (person) 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)


SynonymsYoung


Instance hypernymEgyptologist, physicist









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