| RefNo | MS/242/42 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Simeon Denis Poisson to Thomas Young, dated at Paris |
| Date | 10 May 1818 |
| Description | Thanks for the election to the Royal Society. [Jean Baptiste] Biot has told Poisson that Young was largely responsible for the honour.
Will send his essay on the theory of light wave when it is published later this month, [clarification, this is around the time of the Academie des sciences' prize on the diffraction of light won by [Augustin Jean] Fresnel which disproved Poisson's prior support for the particle theory of light] |
| Language | French |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7947 | Young; Thomas (1773 - 1829); physician, physicist and Egyptologist | 1773 - 1829 |