Talk:Thomas Young (scientist)

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Contents 1 German wiki 2 "Last Person to Know Everything"? 3 This article needs work 4 F = kx (formula attributed to Newton) 5 John Zachary Young

[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:

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

The Wikipedia article on Surface Energy credits Thomas Young and links to the article on Contact Angle which appears to be angle Theta in your formula. I think it is an accomplishment worth adding to the Thomas Young article. Also there should be mention of the Young temperament and possibly Young's Rule for determining child medicine doses.

Harold14370 16:01, 10 April 2007 (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)

Not meaning any disrespect to the two persons mentioned, but I don't think they really qualify. Coleridge was pretty much just a poet. I don't even know why he was mentioned. Goethe made an impact as poet, dramatist, and novelist which are closely related. As a scientist, he really made no impact. His theory of light was a crock. As a painter, he just dabbled. A great man surely, but not really a polymath on the same order as Young. Harold14370 03:48, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This article needs work

Please compare this article to the Answers.com entries and improve this article. For instance, Young was the first to use the term energy in its modern, physical sense.--76.220.203.60 06:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] F = kx (formula attributed to Newton)

In the section titled "Young's modulus", the formula F = kx is attributed to Newton, but I always thought that was (Robert) Hooke's law of elasticity. Does anyone know for certain who devised this "law"? Did Newton also devise this relationship/law? TimProof 19:18, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

All the books I've consulted say Hooke. The only Newton connection is that Newton prevented Hooke's ideas from being given any play while Newton was alive. Dicklyon 23:27, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] John Zachary Young

I'm sure that J. Z. Young was a stalwart fellow, but surely the place to mention that he's a direct line descendant of Thomas Young is on his own (large and lengthy already) wikipedia article, and not on Thomas Young's. arkuat (talk) 06:46, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Why not mention it in both? Dicklyon (talk) 14:18, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Because then we'd be expected to do the research to make sure that all of Thomas Young's other descendants who were at least as notable as JZ were also mentioned in Thomas Young's article. arkuat (talk) 21:23, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

That's a lame excuse; there is no requirement to be complete or balanced in wikipedia. Dicklyon (talk) 21:48, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

I think in this case an excuse is required for leaving this irrelevancy in Thomas Young's article, and no excuse is required for removing it. arkuat (talk) 03:02, 8 June 2008 (UTC)