Judith Sharn Young (née Rubin; September 15, 1952 – May 23, 2014)[1] was an American physicist, astronomer,[2] and educator.

"[6] Young received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Astronomy from Harvard University and graduated with Honors.

[6] Young began a postdoctoral fellowship at UMass in 1979, collaborating with Nick Z. Scoville in a study which measured the cold gas and carbon monoxide content of galaxies.

[7] 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.

[4] Judith Young died from complications resulting from multiple myeloma, a disease she lived with for eight years.