Laurence R. Young Explained

Workplaces:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Birth Date:	19 December 1935
Fields:	Aeronautics

Laurence R. Young (December 19, 1935 – August 4, 2021) was an American physicist. He was the Apollo Program Professor Emeritus of Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Life

He received an A.B. from Amherst College 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.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} Young was a backup payload specialist for the Spacelab mission STS-58 in 1993.^[5] He was Apollo Program Professor at MIT.^[6]

He died on August 4, 2021.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Laurence Young . mit.edu . April 28, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181110002707/http://aeroastro.mit.edu/professor-laurence-young . November 10, 2018 . dead .
2. Web site: Laurence R. Young . mit.edu . April 28, 2017.
3. Web site: Laurence R. Young . 3 October 2014 . colorado.edu . May 15, 2017.
4. Web site: Retirement . December 31, 2013 . mit.edu . May 15, 2017.
5. Web site: 2023-10-19 . 30 Years Ago: The STS-58 Spacelab Life Sciences-2 Mission - NASA . 2024-02-13 . en-US.
6. Web site: 2015-07-02 . Working out in artificial gravity . 2024-02-13 . MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology . en.
7. https://news.mit.edu/2021/laurence-young-professor-emeritus-astronautics-dies-0823 Laurence Young, professor emeritus of astronautics and renowned expert in bioastronautics, dies at 85