Reynold Kenneth Young

[1] With a fellowship for graduate study at the University of California, Berkeley, Young spent three years as a Fellow at the Lick Observatory.

[4][2] There he met his future wife, Wilhelmina Ellen Aitken, a fellow astronomer and the daughter of the observatory director, Robert G.

[5] In 1912, under his advisor William Wallace Campbell, Young was awarded a doctorate in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley with a thesis titled, Polarization of the light in the solar corona.

[2] During 1915, Young developed star charts that used gnomonic projection, which allowed observers to accurately plot the straight line path of a meteor trail.

[8][9] Following a productive three years, in August 1917 he joined the staff of John S. Plaskett as an astronomer at the recently founded Dominion Astrophysical Observatory (DAO).

[4][10] Young used the large instrument to extend the nation's program of stellar spectroscopy to fainter stars of magnitude six or lower.

[2] Young joined Clarence A. Chant on an expedition to observe the solar eclipse of September 21, 1922 from Wallal, Western Australia.

She was named the Los Angeles Times woman of the year in 1966, and was awarded the Garvan-Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society in 1967.