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| 1. | Andrew (Jackson, Jr.), born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, since 1981. |
| 2. | Art(hur Henry), 1866–1944, U.S. cartoonist and author. |
| 3. | Brigham, 1801–77, U.S. leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| 4. | Charles, 1864–1922, U.S. army colonel: highest-ranking black officer in World War I. |
| 5. | Denton T. (Cy ), 1867–1955, U.S. baseball player. |
| 6. | Edward, 1683–1765, English poet. |
| 7. | Ella, 1867–1956, Irish poet and mythologist in the U.S. |
| 8. | Lester Willis (“Pres”; “Prez”), 1909–59, U.S. jazz tenor saxophonist. |
| 9. | Owen D., 1874–1962, U.S. lawyer, industrialist, government administrator, and financier. |
| 10. | Stark, 1881–1963, U.S. drama critic, novelist, and playwright. |
| 11. | Thomas, 1773–1829, English physician, physicist, mathematician, and Egyptologist. |
| 12. | Whitney M., Jr., 1921–71, U.S. social worker and educator: executive director of the National Urban League 1961–71. |
Young , Thomas. 1773-1829.
British physician and physicist who in 1801 postulated the three-color theory of color vision. Young also discovered (1801) astigmatism and described accommodation.
| Young (yŭng) Pronunciation Key
British physicist and physician who is best known for his contributions to the wave theory of light and his discovery of how the lens of the human eye changes shape to focus on objects of different distances. He also studied surface tension and elasticity, and Young's modulus (a measure of the rigidity of materials) is named for him. He is also credited with the first scientific definition of the word energy. |