James Edward Young
James Edward Young | |
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| Born | January 18, 1926 Wheeling, West Virginia |
| Alma mater | Howard University (B.A.) MIT (Ph.D.) |
| Spouse | E. Elaine Hunter |
| Children | 1 |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Hampton Institute MIT |
| Thesis | Propagation of sound in attenuating ducts containing absorptive strips (1953) |
| Doctoral advisor | Philip M. Morse |
| Doctoral students | Shirley Ann Jackson Sylvester James Gates |
James Edward Young (born January 18, 1926) is an American physicist who was the first black tenured faculty member in the Department of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a founding member of the National Society of Black Physicists and a mentor for Shirley Ann Jackson.