Prof Robert Burns Young FRSE FRSSA FGS (1874–1949) was a 20th-century Scottish geologist.
He was born in Perth in 1874, the son of Andrew Young and his wife, Llllas Burns.
He then undertook a second science degree at the University of Edinburgh specialising in geology and graduating with BSc in 1903.
Prior to graduation (1899–1901) he joined Sir John Murray and Frederick Pullar in their Bathymetric Survey of all Scottish lochs.
[1] In 1903 he succeeded his brother Andrew as lecturer in Geology at the South African College in Cape Town.