Ian Robert Young (11 January 1932 – 27 September 2019) was a British

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, known for his work in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Life

He was educated at

Sedbergh School Sedbergh School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) in the town of Sedbergh in Cumbria, in North West England. It comprises a junior school for children aged 4 to 13 and the main school for 13 to 18 year olds. I ...

and later studied

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Aberdeen University , mottoeng = The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom , established = , type = Public research universityAncient university , endowment = £58.4 million (2021) , budget ...

, 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. He became visiting professor of radiology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in 1986. He was visiting professor at the

Imperial College School of Medicine Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM) is the undergraduate medical school of Imperial College London in England, and one of the United Hospitals. It is part of the college's Faculty of Medicine and was formed by the merger of several hist ...

Hammersmith Hospital Hammersmith Hospital, formerly the Military Orthopaedic Hospital, and later the Special Surgical Hospital, is a major teaching hospital in White City, West London. It is part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in the London Borough of ...

from 1983 to 2001. He is also senior research fellow at

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

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) is an award and fellowship for engineers who are recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being the best and brightest engineers, inventors and technologists in the UK and from aroun ...

in 1988. and a

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in 1989. In 1990 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, and became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1986 Birthday Honours. He holds over 40 patents and has authored over 100 papers on MRI. He won the 2004 Whittle Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and was president of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine from 1991 to 1992. He died on 27 September 2019 at the age of 87.

References

External links

"Young, Ian R.: EMI's Venture into NMR—An Industrial Saga"
'' Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance.'' 15 March 2007 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Ian Robert 1932 births 2019 deaths Academics of Imperial College London Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Officers of the Order of the British Empire