Ian Robert Young (11 January 1932 – 27 September 2019) was a British medical physicist, known for his work in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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 was visiting professor at the Imperial College School of Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital from 1983 to 2001.
[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.
[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.