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 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. 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.

He died on August 4, 2021.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Laurence Young". mit.edu. Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Laurence R. Young". mit.edu. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Laurence R. Young". colorado.edu. 3 October 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Retirement". mit.edu. December 31, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ Laurence Young, professor emeritus of astronautics and renowned expert in bioastronautics, dies at 85


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