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Fig.1: Portrait of Thomas Young (British Museum)
Thomas Young (1773-1829) was a noted English physicist and medical
doctor. Contemporary with, or slightly earlier than, Champollion,
Young independently disovered part of the Egyptian alphabet used
in hieroglyphic writing, based on the Rosinetta stone.
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