| Authorised form of name | Young; Ian Robert (1932 - 2019) |
| Dates | 1932 - 2019 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 11/01/1932 |
| Date of death | 27/09/2019 |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Research field | Medical imaging |
| Medical physics |
| Activity | Education:
Aberdeen Grammar School (1938-1945); Selbergh School, Yorkshire (1945-1950); Aberdeen University, BSc in Natural Philosophy (1950-1954), PhD (1954-1958)
Career:
Evershed and Vignoles Ltd, scientific insturment makers (1959-1967); Technical Director; Evershed Power Optics Ltd (1967-1976); Technical Director, Process Peripherals Ltd (1970-1976); Laboratory Manager, EMI Central Research Laboratories (1976-1981); Laboratory Manager, GEC/Picker Research Laboratory, Hirst Research Centre (1981-1989); Honorary Professor of Radiology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (1986); Visiting Professor at the Imperial College School of Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital (1983-2001)
Honours:
OBE 1986
Memberships:
Hnorary member Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (1989); Fellowship of Engineering (1988); Institution of Electrical Engineers (1964, member of Council 1973-1976) ; Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (trustee 1986-1989); Institute of MEasurement and Control
Medals and awards:
Duddell Medal (now Gabor Medal) of the Instiute of Physics 1985; Gold Medal Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 1988 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1989 |
| Age at election | 57 |
| RSActivity | Lectures:
Clifford Paterson 1993 |
| Relationships | Phd supervisor was Prof. R.V. Jones |
| OtherInfo | Ian Young is an applied scientist and engineer who has made major theoretical and practical contributions to medical imaging, and in particular to magnetic resonance imaging. He designed the first commercial whole body NMR scanner, and his team produced the first images of the human head. He developed the use of spectroscopic pulse sequences to enhance image contrast; the inversion-recovery and spin-echo sequences are now widely used in clinical imaging. He introduced the concept of paramagnetic contrast agents and was involved in their clinical evaluation. Other pioneering achievements included the invention of closely coupled receiver coils, phase mapping for the measurement of blood flow and for delineating differences in tissue susceptibility. He also made an important contribution to the three-dimensional mapping of metabolites in human organs.
Dr Ian Young OBE FREng FRS died on 27 September 2019. |
| Source | Sources:
https://royalsociety.org/people/ian-young-12581/ |
| Code | NA4806 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1989/40 | Young, Ian Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1987 |