A HISTORY OF SCIENCE 



Institute, conveyed to Young in the same year the no- 

 tification that he had been similarly honored by the 

 savants of France. 



A few months later Fresnel was dead, and Young 

 survived him only two years. Both died prematurely, 

 but their great work was done, and the world will re- 

 member always and link together these two names in 

 connection with a theory which in its implications and 

 importance ranks little below the theory of universal 

 gravitation. 



