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See also:YOUNG, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1773-1829) , See also:English See also:man of See also:science, belonged to a Quaker See also:family of Milverton, See also:Somerset, where he was See also:born on the 13th of See also:June 1773, the youngest of ten See also:children. At the See also:age of fourteen he was acquainted with Latin, See also:Greek, See also:French, See also:Italian, See also:Hebrew, See also:Persian' and Arabic. Beginning to study See also:medicine in See also:London in 1792, he removed to See also:Edinburgh in 1794, and a See also:year later went to See also:Gottingen, where he obtained the degree of See also:doctor of physic in 1796. In 1797 he entered See also:Emmanuel See also:College, See also:Cambridge. In the same year the See also:death of his See also:grand-See also:uncle, See also:Richard See also:Brocklesby, made him financially See also:independent, and in 1799 he established himself as a physician in Welbeck See also:Street, London. Appointed in 18o1 See also:professor of physics at the Royal Institution, in two years he delivered ninety-one lectures. These lectures, printed in 1807 (Course of Lectures on Natural See also:Philosophy), contain a remark-able number of anticipations of later theories.
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