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The 26 pages that link to Thomas Young, each with the reason it gives.

• Color visionRelated: Originator of trichromacy, the framework color science still uses.

• Hermann von HelmholtzRelated: Helmholtz developed Young’s proposal into a detailed theory of color vision.

• InterferometryRelated: His double-slit experiment made interference a defining test of wave behavior.

• Rosetta StoneRelated: His work on the stone’s names and scripts preceded Champollion’s breakthrough.

• OpticsRelated: His experiment supplied powerful evidence for the wave theory of light.

• Opponent process theoryRelated: Young's proposal became a foundation for the theory Hering opposed.

• Diffraction limitRelated: Interference is central to the wave behavior that produces diffraction patterns and limits.

• Contact angleRelated: His 1805 treatment gives the ideal force-balance relation now used for equilibrium contact angles.

• Augustin-Jean FresnelRelated: Young’s interference evidence helped establish the experimental foundation Fresnel extended mathematically.

• TrichromacyRelated: His three-receptor hypothesis is the founding statement of trichromacy.

• Color matching (trichromacy)Related: His three-receptor hypothesis explained why three primaries suffice.

• Wave theory of lightRelated: His experiment supplied striking evidence that light waves can interfere.

• Jean-François ChampollionRelated: Young’s partial readings preceded and informed Champollion’s more comprehensive decipherment.

• Double-slit experimentRelated: His two-slit work made the experiment a landmark in the debate over light.

• Wave opticsRelated: His experiment made wave interference a decisive explanation of optical patterns.

• William Hyde WollastonRelated: Young and Wollaston exchanged ideas during a period of rapid advances in optics.

• Luminiferous aetherRelated: His interference experiments strengthened the wave picture that motivated a light-bearing medium.

• Newton's ringsRelated: His later wave-optics work helped explain the rings through superposition.

• Young–Helmholtz theoryRelated: Young proposed that the eye uses a limited number of receptor types to encode color.

• Fresnel integralsRelated: His wave-interference work preceded Fresnel’s mathematical treatment of diffraction.

• Aether theoriesRelated: His interference evidence strengthened the wave view that motivated aether models.

• Airy functionRelated: Young’s wave theory of light supplied foundations for the diffraction analysis Airy developed.

• David BrewsterRelated: Young’s wave theory informed the optical debates in which Brewster conducted experiments.

• Human visionRelated: Author of the trichromatic theory later confirmed by cone physiology.