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Authorised form of nameYoung; Ian Robert (1932 - 2019)
Dates1932 - 2019
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England, United Kingdom
Date of birth11/01/1932
Date of death27/09/2019
OccupationEngineer
Research fieldMedical imaging
Medical physics
ActivityEducation:
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 categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1989
Age at election57
RSActivityLectures:
Clifford Paterson 1993
RelationshipsPhd supervisor was Prof. R.V. Jones
OtherInfoIan 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.
SourceSources:
https://royalsociety.org/people/ian-young-12581/
CodeNA4806
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1989/40Young, Ian Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society1987
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