Thomas Young/Definition

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(1773-1829) English scientist who showed how the eye's lens focus light, proposed the three-color explanation of color vision, established the wave nature of light, defined energy in the modern sense, improved on Hooke's law, and helped decipher the Rosetta Stone.

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