Young, Thomas (1773—1829), médecin et physicien; a découvert l’interférence de la lumière. Secrétaire de la Royal Society, à Londres. Contribua, par son indiscrétion, à la rupture entre Berzelius et Davy.
Dear Sir,
I have at length the pleasure to transmit to you the diploma of your election as a Fellow of the Royal Society, a distinction so justly due to the acknowledged merits of your numerous and accurate investigations relating to every department of chemical philosophy. The delay in sending it has been occasioned by the death of the Clerk of the Society, and the temporary loss of the copper plate on which the form of the diploma is engraved. I hope your name is inserted correctly: but you so seldom print it at full length, that it is difficult to be quite certain respecting it.
You probably hear occasionally from Dr. Gerelius231 what we are doing in this country: he promised me to give you an account of Davy's experiments on the means of preventing explosions in coal mines, to which I procured him
