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A paper of Thomas Young (1773-1829) on the behavior of streams of air makes agood starting point for discussing the not always fair, sometimesserendipitous, association of a physical phenomenon with its discoverer. In adidactic context, the introduction of historic anecdotes and the particulardetails of a scientific discovery represent an effective tool for establishinginterdisciplinary connections that may help in the learning process and mayunveil unexpected insights in the disposition of a scientist. We discuss asmall part of a famous paper by Young on sound and light. We show that theproverbial intuition of this famous polymath, applied to complex fluid dynamicphenomena, may lead to the discussion of the Coand\u{a} effect, the physicalorigin of lift, and the behavior of streams of air, as well as weave aninteresting interplay of several crucial names in the history of aerodynamics.

Could the Coand\u{a} effect be called the Young effect? The understanding of fluid dynamics of a legendary polymath