| Authorised form of name | Young; James (1811 - 1883) |
| Dates | 1811 - 1883 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Drygate, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 13 July 1811 |
| Place of death | Kelly, near Wemyss Bay |
| Date of death | 13 May 1883 |
| Occupation | Chemist |
| Activity | Education:
Studied under Thomas Graham (FRS 1836); Andersonian University, Glasgow
Career:
Assistant to Thomas Graham and worked with him in University College, London; in business in Manchester; involved in manufacturing oils from a petroleum spring at Alfreton, Derbyshire (1848-1851); in partnership with Edward Meldrum and Edward William Binney (FRS 1856) maufacturing oils at Bathgate (1850); began selling paraffin (1856); donated £1,000 to the Royal Society, for general purposes (1878)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 12/06/1873 |
| Relationships | Son of John Young, joiner, and his wife Jean Wilson; married (1838) Mary |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/102331168 |
| Code | NA5603 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1873/17 | Young, James: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MS/373/1/99 | Testimonial by James Young and J B Kielston, Glasgow, supporting Thomas Edward Thorpe | 11 May 1874 |
| RR/8/357 | Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'Experimental determination of the velocity of white and of coloured light' by James Young and George Forbes | [1881] |
| RR/8/356 | Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Experimental determination of the velocity of white and of coloured light' by James Young and George Forbes | 19 July 1881 |
| MC/11/209 | Letter from George Forbes, Scientific Club, 7 Savile Row, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 4 May 1878 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| MC/27/249 | Letter from Rudolph Messel, 147 Victoria Street, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, [Assistant Secretary], [Royal Society] | 5 June 1912 |