Ian Robert Young

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Ian Robert Young
Aberdeen University
OccupationMedical physicist

Ian Robert Young

OBE FRS FREng (11 January 1932 – 27 September 2019) was a British medical physicist, known for his work in the field of magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI).

Life

He was educated at

Aberdeen University, then worked for EMI from 1976 to 1981, then for GEC from 1981 to 1982, when he became Chief Scientist of the NMR division of Picker International upon its creation.[1]

He became visiting professor of radiology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in 1986.[1] He was visiting professor at the Imperial College School of Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital from 1983 to 2001. He is also senior research fellow at Hirst Research Centre.

In 1992, he was awarded an honorary DSc by Aberdeen University.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1986 Birthday Honours.[4] He holds over 40 patents and has authored over 100 papers on MRI.[1]

He won the 2004 Whittle Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering,[2] and was president of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine from 1991 to 1992.[5]

He died on 27 September 2019 at the age of 87.[6]

References

  1. ^
    Wikidata Q29581621
  2. ^ a b "List of Fellows". Raeng.org.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Ian Young". Royal Society. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  4. ^ United Kingdom list: "No. 50551". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1986. pp. 1–26.
  5. ^ "Robert Young Biography". Debretts.com. Archived from the original on 25 April 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  6. ^ "The Times and The Sunday Times e-paper". Epaper.thetimes.co.uk.

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