William R. Young (oceanographer)

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William Roy Young
Born (1955-11-21) 21 November 1955 (age 68)
Alma mater Australian National University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Scientific career
Fields Fluid dynamics
Oceanography
Institutions Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis The vertical structure of the wind-driven circulation  (1981)
Doctoral advisor Peter B. Rhines

William Roy Young (also referred to as Bill Young) is an Australian-American oceanograoher and a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. [1] [2] [3]

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Education and career

William Young graduated from Australian National University with a Bachelors' degree in theoretical physics in 1977 and a Masters' degree in applied mathematics in 1978. He completed his Phd in 1981 under the supervision of Peter B. Rhines that was awarded by a joint PhD program offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. [4] He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1981 to 1984.

He joined the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985 and worked there till 1987. He returned to Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1988 where he still remains.

Awards and honours

He was elected as a fellow of American Geophysical Union in 1989 [5] , of American Meteorological Society in 2008 [6] and of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012. [7]

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References

  1. https://wryoung.scrippsprofiles.ucsd.edu/
  2. "William R. Young's homepage - Bill Young".
  3. "Biography".
  4. https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/57916/09193185-MIT.pdf;sequence=2
  5. "AGU - American Geophysical Union".
  6. "List of Fellows".
  7. "William R. Young".