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Judith Young (astronomer)

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Young is perhaps best known for her Sunwheel project. Young's goal for this project was to bring astronomy down to earth and to an empty lot behind the football stadium at the UMass-Amherst campus. In addition to her academic work, Young volunteered on the UMass campus and in her local community.
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of Caltech writes of her research: "Her pioneering galactic structure research included some of the earliest mapping of CO emission in galaxies followed by the most extensive surveys molecular gas and star formation in nearby galaxies."
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in 1985. In 1989, Young was promoted to associate professor with tenure, and became a Full Professor in 1993. She published more than 130 papers, mentored 5 Ph.D. candidates, and supervised 15 undergraduate research projects.
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and graduated with Honors. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the
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She was married to Michael Young from 1975 to 1990 and had a daughter, Laura.
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Young began a postdoctoral fellowship at UMass in 1979, collaborating with
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for being the best young physicist in the world in 1986. Astronomer
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Young was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of astronomer
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Young received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Astronomy from
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Recipients of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy
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Judith Young died from complications resulting from
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Harvard University
University of Minnesota
Robert Joshua Rubin
Vera Rubin
Karl Rubin
Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award
Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
Phyllis S. Freier
née
physicist
American Physical Society
Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award
Nick Scoville
Harvard University
University of Minnesota
Nick Z. Scoville
carbon monoxide
galaxies
American Astronomical Society
Annie J. Cannon Prize
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Vera Rubin
Robert Joshua Rubin
Karl Rubin
multiple myeloma

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