Young's interference experiment
1801 double-slit experiment by Thomas Young / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Young's interference experiment, also called Young's double-slit interferometer, was the original version of the modern double-slit experiment, performed at the beginning of the nineteenth century by Thomas Young. This experiment played a major role in the general acceptance of the wave theory of light.[1] In Young's own judgement, this was the most important of his many achievements.
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