 Thomas Young Centre

The Thomas Young Centre (TYC) is an alliance of London research groups working on the theory and simulation of
materials (TSM).It is named after the celebrated scientist and polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829), who lived and worked in London and is known in the world of science for a number of important discoveries concerning the wave nature of light, the theory of vision, the elastic properties of solids, and the theory of surface tension.