Editing Thomas Young (scientist) (section)

==Legacy==
Later scholars and scientists have praised Young's work although they may know him only through achievements he made in their fields. His contemporary Sir [[John Herschel]] called him a "truly original genius".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Buick|first1=Tony|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TKja1yLMLyQC&q=Thomas+Young+Herschel+truly+original+genius&pg=PA81|title=The Rainbow Sky: An Exploration of Colors in the Solar System and Beyond|date=2010|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9781441910530|page=81}}</ref> [[Albert Einstein]] praised him in the 1931 foreword to an edition of [[Isaac Newton]]'s ''[[Opticks]]''. Other admirers include physicist [[Lord Rayleigh]] and Nobel Physics laureate [[Philip W. Anderson|Philip Anderson]].

Thomas Young's name has been adopted as the name of the London-based [[Thomas Young Centre]], an alliance of academic research groups engaged in the theory and simulation of materials.

[[Young Sound]] in eastern [[Greenland]] was named in his honour by [[William Scoresby]] (1789–1857).<ref name="cat">[https://data.geus.dk/geusmap/?mapname=stednavnedb#baslay=baseMapGl&optlay=&extent=549832.8357720698,8582739.868248867,622444.3190166993,8680765.370629115&layers=grl_geus_north_east_higgins_map,grl_ne_higgins_placenames,grl_ne_placenames&filter_1=txt_search.part%3D%26placename%3D&filter_2=txt_search.part%3D%26placename%3D Place names, NE Greenland]</ref>