Judith Young

Judith Sharn Young (; September 15, 1952 – May 23, 2014) 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 [of] molecular gas and star formation in nearby galaxies."

Career Young received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Astronomy from Harvard University and graduated with Honors. Young's goal for this project was to bring astronomy down to earth and to an empty lot behind the football stadium at the UMass-Amherst campus.

She was married to Michael Young from 1975 to 1990 and had a daughter, Laura.

Judith Young died from complications resulting from multiple myeloma, a disease she lived with for eight years.