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MR. JAMES YOUNG, lecturer in physics at the University of Birmingham, who died on May 28, 1945, aged forty-seven, was born at Dalferf, Lanarkshire. He was educated at Allan Glen's School, Glasgow, and in 1916 proceeded to the Royal College of Science, South Kensington. After a brilliant academic career, Young joined the physics staff at Birmingham in 1920 and worked with one of his former teachers, Prof. S. W. J. Smith.
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DEE, A. Mr. James Young. Nature 155, 749 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155749a0
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