Leo Young

Background

Young, Leo was born on August 18, 1926 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Samuel and Marie Young. came to the United States, 1953, naturalized, 1958.

Education

Bachelor, Cambridge University, 1946. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, 1950. Master of Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1956.

Doctor of Engineering (Westinghouse-B.G. Lamme graduate scholar), Johns Hopkins University, 1959. Doctor of Hebrew Literature (honorary), Johns Hopkins University, 1989.

Career

Manager laboratory Decca Radar, Ltd., Surbiton, England, 1951—1953. Advisory engineer Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore, 1953—1960. Staff scientist, program manager Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, 1960—1973.

Staff consultant, associate superintendent Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, 1973—1981. Director research Office Under secretary Defense Research and Engineering United States Department Defense, 1981—1994, consultant to director defense research and engineering, 1994—2002. Board directors Filtronic-Comtek, England.

Member National Science Foundation delegation to Japan, 1995, 99. Chair National Science Foundation Review Panel on Critical Technologies, 1997. Chair advisory committee department electrical and computer engineering Johns Hopkins University, 2003.

Taught Leeds University, Israel Institute of Technology, Marconi Institute at Bologna University. Founding member NAS/National Academy of Engineering Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable.

Achievements

• Leo Young has been listed as a noteworthy electrical engineer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Microwave Filters, Impedance-Matching Networks, and Coupling Structures (Artech Microwave Library)

    (No microwave engineer's library is complete without this ...)

  • Microwave Filters Using Parallel Coupled Lines (Microwave Library)

    (Book by Young, Leo)

  • Systems of units in electricity and magnetism; (Electronic and electrical engineering texts, 1)

Membership

Fellow: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (president 1980, Microwave prize 1963, Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Professionalism award 1993, Pinnacle award 1995, Centennial award, Citation of Honor, Microwave Career award 1988), American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member: National Academy of Engineering (Athur M. Bueche award 2005), American Association Engineering Societies (board governor), Electromagnetics Academy, Royal Academy Engineering United Kingdom, Microwave Society (life. President 1969), Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Fay Merskey, January 4, 1953 (deceased May 1981). Children– Philip Michael, Sarah Anne, Joseph David. Married Ruth Breslow, January 2, 1983 (deceased November 1996).

Married Jo-Ellen Turner, July 9, 1999.

Father:

Samuel Young

Mother:

Marie Young

Spouse:

Jo-Ellen Turner

Spouse:

Fay Merskey

Spouse:

Ruth Breslow

child:

Philip Michael Young

child:

Joseph David Young

child:

Sarah Anne Young