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Thomas Young was not afraid to call Newton’s particle theory of light into question. His famous “double-split” experiment showed unequivocally the wave nature of light. However, in the race to decipher the Rosetta Stone, Young lost out to his rival, the Frenchman Jean-François Champollion.
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Schils, R. (2012). Thomas Young. In: How James Watt Invented the Copier. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0860-4_10
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