Talk:Thomas Young (scientist)

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[edit] German wiki

The German wikipedia mentions a Young's formula, which supposedly governs wetting to some extent. Yet I can find no mention of it here. Could someone please check to see if Thomas Young did in fact formulate this formula:

\cos \Theta = \frac{\sigma_S - \sigma_{LS}}{\sigma_L}

-- Ec5618 10:43, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Last Person to Know Everything"?

How can he be considered "the last person to know everything" when two of the others claiming the same "title" (Coolerige, Goethe) died after Young? 208.201.250.2 04:26, 29 December 2006 (UTC)