# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/judith-young
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:38:58.415Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/judith-young"
name: "Judith Young"
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description: "Judith Sharn Young was an American physicist, astronomer, and educator. The American Physical Society honored Young with the first Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for being the best young physicist in the world in 1986. Astronomer Nick Scoville of Caltech writes of her research: \"Her pioneering galactic structure research included some of the earliest mapping of CO emission in galaxies followed by the most extensive surveys molecular gas and star formation in nearby galaxies.\""
tagline: "American physicist (1952–2014)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1952-09-15"
deathDate: "2014-05-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump