{{Short description|British medical physicist (1932–2019)}} {{Use dmy dates|date= June 2017}} {{Use British English|date= June 2017}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|FRS|FREng}} | image = | caption = | birth_name = Ian Robert Young | birth_date = 11 January 1932 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|09|27|1932|01|11|df=y}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = [[Aberdeen University]] | occupation = [[Medical physicist]] | years_active = | employer = | organization = | agent = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | television = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | website = }}
'''Ian Robert Young''' (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 [[Sedbergh School]] and later studied [[physics]] 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.<ref name="HoMBRG-2">{{cite Q|Q29581621}}</ref>
He became visiting professor of radiology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in 1986.<ref name="HoMBRG-2" /> 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.<ref name="HoMBRG-2" /> He was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering]] in 1988.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|title=List of Fellows|website=Raeng.org.uk|access-date=11 December 2021|archive-date=8 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608094405/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1989.<ref name="RS">{{cite web|title=Ian Young|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/ian-young-12581/|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|language=en-gb |access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref> In 1990 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists,<ref name="HoMBRG-2" /> and became an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] in the [[1986 Birthday Honours]].<ref>United Kingdom list: {{London Gazette |date=13 June 1986 |supp=y |issue=50551 |pages=1–26 }}</ref> He holds over 40 patents and has authored over 100 papers on MRI.<ref name="HoMBRG-2" />
He won the 2004 Whittle Medal of the [[Royal Academy of Engineering]],<ref name="auto"/> and was president of the [[Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine]] from 1991 to 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robert Young Biography|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/y/18525/Ian%20Robert+YOUNG.aspx|website=Debretts.com|url-status=dead|access-date=12 October 2011|archive-date=25 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200425221612/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/y/18525/Ian%20Robert+YOUNG.aspx}}</ref>
He died on 27 September 2019 at the age of 87.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://epaper.thetimes.com/app/THE343|title=The Times and The Sunday Times e-paper|website=[[The Times]]}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470034590.emrhp0203/abstract "Young, Ian R.: EMI's Venture into NMR—An Industrial Saga"], '' Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance.'' 15 March 2007 * {{History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group ID}} {{FRS 1989}} {{Authority control}}
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