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【 1773年6月13日生まれ ~ 1829年5月10没】
【Thomas Young（1773–1829）、
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Young and historical background

Thomas Young of England earned a medical degree in Göttingen and began his work as a practitioner in London. In his late twenties, he became a scholar of natural sciences and as a doctor he pursued research on astigmatism and color perception. It was an era when Newton was systematized and applied research was progressing in physics. It was in a transitional period of multidisciplinary development at the beginning of the 20th century. I would like to incorporate exchanges between such fields as the revision progresses.

Young’s achievements

The major achievement of Young is research including the concept of the three primary colors of light. The fact that light is a wave and how the human body feels that wave and can express it with high reproducibility, in other words, when various people feel a specific light, what parameters are selected to express without belonging life It is a study of whether it can be done. As a doctor, I have a lot of questions and answers about vision, and as I accumulate knowledge about common problems of many people and morbid problems (such as astigmatism), it comes to everyone’s eyes. I was thinking about the phenomenon of “light.”

In such research, I proceeded with research on optics and explained phenomena such as interference using the “wave theory of light”.

Rethinking the wave theory of light

Here, I will explain it persistently in case the understanding of beginners is confused. From a quantum mechanical point of view, light has two sides, and there is also a “particle-like side”. The photoelectric effect proposed by Einstein is one example. Also, when considering nuclear reactions, there are many phenomena that can be very explained if we proceed with the discussion after considering the existence of “photons”. Imagine that there was no such understanding in Young’s time, and there was even a debate about whether “light” was a “particle” or a “wave”. Perhaps it’s easier to discuss if you start with that assumption. In the understanding system after quantum mechanics, the smaller the object to be observed, the more two-sided the substance becomes. It can be said that it is a problem for observation, and it can be said that it is a “view” of the current understanding system.

Young expressed the beginning of such a debate from a medical point of view in words that can be understood in the world of science. In addition, Young advanced his understanding by devising a tuning method with the least dissonance in his research on sound, and by making full use of an expression called Young’s modulus in his research on elastic bodies. 〆