[dubious – discuss] Her grandfather Robert Grant Aitken cataloged binary stars at Lick Observatory, and her father also worked an astronomer there.

[1] Young attended the University of California at Berkeley for undergraduate and graduate work, earning her doctorate in 1936.

Her research continued to the end of her life, when she was working from a hospital bed on her final paper on premicelles.

Marjorie Vold was awarded the Garvan Medal by the American Chemical Society for 1967, for her pioneering work in computer models of colloids.

[5] Vold received a Guggenheim Fellowship to teach in the Netherlands in 1953–54, the only woman chemist to earn that honor between 1940 and 1970.