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Unified varied optical phenomena through a wave account and a general principle of interference in the 1801 Bakerian Lecture published in 1802.
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Thomas Young
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Young: wave interference in the theory of light and colours
Unified varied optical phenomena through a wave account and a general principle of interference in the 1801 Bakerian Lecture published in 1802.
Scientific scope
The exact work is the 1802 paper. It is not described as the first modern double-slit experiment, a historically disputed shorthand, and later Fresnel developments remain separate.
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People and systems
Thomas Young
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.