Laurence R. Young (December 19, 1935 – August 4, 2021) was an American physicist who was the Apollo Program Professor Emeritus of Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Elected Fellow of the

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, the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He received an A.B. from

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in 1957; a Certificate in Applied Mathematics from the Sorbonne, Paris as a French Government Fellow in 1958; S.B. and S.M. degrees in Electrical Engineering and the Sc.D. degree in Instrumentation from MIT, from 1957 to 1962. Young was a backup payload specialist for the Spacelab mission STS-58 in 1993. He died on August 4, 2021.Laurence Young, professor emeritus of astronautics and renowned expert in bioastronautics, dies at 85
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1935 births 2021 deaths MIT School of Engineering faculty 21st-century American physicists Fellow Members of the IEEE MIT School of Engineering alumni Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellows of the Biomedical Engineering Society Amherst College alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine {{US-physicist-stub