Young's Double Slit
In 1801, British Physicist Thomas Young conducted an experiment that gave conclusive experimental evidence to the wave nature of light.
He passed coherent light through two slits and observed a series of bright and dark fringes that can only be explained by the constructive and destructive intereference of waves.
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