Thomas Young and the Wave Nature of Light

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Title: Thomas Young and the Wave Nature of Light
Authors: Beléndez, Augusto
Research Group/s: Holografía y Procesado Óptico | GITE - Física, Óptica y Telecomunicaciones
Center, Department or Service: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías
Keywords: Thomas Young | Double-slit experiment | Wave nature of light | International Year of Light
Knowledge Area: Óptica | Física Aplicada | Historia de la Ciencia
Date Created: 3-Jun-2015
Issue Date: 13-Jun-2015
Publisher: BBVA OpenMind
Citation: BELÉNDEZ VÁZQUEZ, Augusto. "Thomas Young and the Wave Nature of Light". OpenMind, 13 de junio de 2015
Abstract: One of the milestones of the science of light commemorated during this International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies is «the notion of light as a wave proposed by Fresnel in 1815» that is, the celebration of the second centenary of the presentation of Augustin Fresnel’s paper titled Premier Mémoire sur la Diffraction de la Lumière before the Academy of Sciences in Paris on October 15, 1815 and which was published the following year. Fresnel contributed significantly to the establishment of the wave theory of light and thereafter this theory was very successful and resulted in a flood of new discoveries. However, it was a British erudite and physician called Thomas Young who convincingly demonstrated the wave nature of light –contrary to the ideas of Newton who believed light was composed of a stream of particles– through the double-slit experiment, known today as Young’s light-interference experiment.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/48487
Language: eng
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/contributionToPeriodical
Rights: Licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0
Peer Review: no
Publisher version: https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/thomas-young-and-the-wave-nature-of-light/
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