Young, Thomas, double-slit experiment

Young, Thomas (1773-1829) was an English physician physicist. He could read fluently by age two and presented his first paper to the Royal Society at the young age of 20. By 1801 he was a professor at the Royal Institution in London. He was probably best known for his classic double slit experiment, which demonstrated the wave nature of light. 

In 1801, Thomas Young performed his famous double slit experiment, finally proving the wavelike nature of light A diagram of this experiment is shown in Figure 3.2. A beam of monochromatic light (such as that from a LASER beam) is passed through... 

Thomas Young s famous double slit experiment proved that light behaves as both a particle and... 

I ig. 2.1 shows a modernized version of the famous double-slit diffraction experiment first carried out by Thomas Young in 1801. Light from a monochromatic (single wavelength) source is passed through two narrow slits and projected onto a screen. Each slit by itself would allow just a narrow band of light to illuminate the screen. But with both slits open, a beautiful interference pattern of alternating... 

If de Broglie was right, electrons should provide a diffraction pattern if passed through a double slit (Figure 1.4). The double sUt experiment for light is well known and was first performed by Thomas Young in 1803. G. P. Thomson, son of the discoverer of the electron, first obtained the corresponding diffraction pattern for electrons. 

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