British medical physicist (1932–2019)
Ian Robert Young OBE FRS FREng (11 January 1932 – 27 September 2019) was a British medical physicist , known for his work in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Life
He was educated at Sedbergh School and later studied physics at Aberdeen University , 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.[ 1]
He became visiting professor of radiology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in 1986.[ 1] He was visiting professor at the Imperial College School of Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital from 1983 to 2001. He is also senior research fellow at Hirst Research Centre .
In 1992, he was awarded an honorary DSc by Aberdeen University.[ 1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1988.[ 2] and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989.[ 3] In 1990 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists,[ 1] and became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1986 Birthday Honours .[ 4] He holds over 40 patents and has authored over 100 papers on MRI.[ 1]
He won the 2004 Whittle Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering ,[ 2] and was president of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine from 1991 to 1992.[ 5]
He died on 27 September 2019 at the age of 87.[ 6]
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