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The 200th Anniversary of Thomas Young's Wave Theory
Thomas Young presented his wave theory of light, which included the phenomenon of interference. Young presented his theory to fellows of the Royal Society in a lecture entitled "On the Theory of Light and Colours." This article describes some of Young's ideas about light, and the response they elicited from his contemporaries.
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