Talk:Undulatory theory of light

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Now that I've created this article, it occurs to me that perhaps wave theory of light would be a better name. I'm not sure, though: was the undulatory theory a specific theory, or did the term refer to any wave-based theory? At any rate we need some article on this, not just redirects to the modern notion of wave-particle duality, IMO.

Actually, I now see that wave theory of light was once a stub itself, but it was converted to a redirect in 2004. That might have been an appropriate decision then, but now we should have a real article on this. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 15:34, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Thomas Young died in London on 10 May 1829, and was buried in the cemetery of St. Giles Church in Farnborough, Kent, England. Westminster Abbey houses a white marble tablet in memory of Young, bearing an epitaph by Hudson Gurney:[17][18]

   Sacred to the memory of Thomas Young, M.D., Fellow and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society Member of the National Institute of France; a man alike eminent in almost every department of human learning. Patient of unintermitted labour, endowed with the faculty of intuitive perception, who, bringing an equal mastery to the most abstruse investigations of letters and of science, first established the undulatory theory of light, and first penetrated the obscurity which had veiled for ages the hieroglyphs of Egypt. Endeared to his friends by his domestic virtues, honoured by the World for his unrivalled acquirements, he died in the hopes of the Resurrection of the just. — Born at Milverton, in Somersetshire, 13 June 1773. Died in Park Square, London, 10 May 1829, in the 56th year of his age.