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  • For the first sixteen years of his life Milton was educated partly at home, by a Presbyterian tutor called Thomas Young, partly at St. Paul's

    Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

  • The Jackson era, too, by no means represented a triumph of the kind of economic equality espoused by Paine, Herman Husband, Thomas Young, James Cannon and the democratic-finance populists of 1760s and 1770s.

    William Hogeland: Economic Conflicts of the Founding Era Dispel Tea Party Myths... and Liberal Ones, Too William Hogeland 2011

  • It's not the silver bullet to the problem, but it's going to encourage some kids to stay in school, says South Carolina Rep. Thomas Young, a Republican.

    Lawmakers would link school, driving 2011

  • It's not the silver bullet to the problem, but it's going to encourage some kids to stay in school, says South Carolina Rep. Thomas Young, a Republican.

    Lawmakers would link school, driving 2011

  • Some, like the astronomer and mathematician David Rittenhouse, and Thomas Young, a physician and former protégé of Sam Adams in Boston, had been active in the early drive to unseat the old Assembly; others, including the painter Charles Willson Peale, had little political experience, but were attracted by the ideas of democracy and the “New Man,” freed of the corruption and social forms of the old world, that the Revolution promised to raise up.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • To emphasize its doubt, the subcommittee asked Thomas Young, a former Lockheed Martin executive, to testify.

    NASA Watch: Exploration: March 2010 Archives 2010

  • To emphasize its doubt, the subcommittee asked Thomas Young, a former Lockheed Martin executive, to testify.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: March 2010 Archives 2010

  • Some, like the astronomer and mathematician David Rittenhouse, and Thomas Young, a physician and former protégé of Sam Adams in Boston, had been active in the early drive to unseat the old Assembly; others, including the painter Charles Willson Peale, had little political experience, but were attracted by the ideas of democracy and the “New Man,” freed of the corruption and social forms of the old world, that the Revolution promised to raise up.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Diffraction patterns like those seen by Davisson and Germer and Thomson are an unmistakable signature of wave behavior, as Thomas Young showed in 1799, so their experiments provided proof that de Broglie was right, and electrons have wave nature.

    How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009

  • Those lumps, like the bright and dark spots seen by Thomas Young shining light through a double slit, or the electron diffraction peaks seen by Davisson and Germer, are an unmistakable signature of wave behavior.

    How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009

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