Who first hypothesized that the eye must have three different types of color receptors,with each especially sensitive to one of the three primary colors?
A) Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk
B) David Hubel and Torsten Weisel
C) Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz
D) John Locke and William Molyneux

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Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz both hypothesized the trichromatic theory of color vision, proposing that the eye has three different types of color receptors that are especially sensitive to red, green, and blue light respectively.

Who First Hypothesized That the Eye Must Have Three Different