Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun thomas_young

1 sense of thomas young

Sense 1
Young, Thomas Young -- (British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829))
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)
       INSTANCE OF=> Egyptologist -- (an archeologist who specializes in Egyptology)