Name Alec Young Role Engineer | Died January 27, 2005 | |
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Education Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Books Boundary layers, Mechanics of Fluids, Aircraft Excrescence Drag | ||
Alec David Young (15 August 1913 – 27 January 2005) was a British aero-engineer. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Queen Mary College, University of London, 1954–78, then Emeritus, and Vice-Principal, Queen Mary College, 1966-78.
Young was educated at Caius College, Cambridge (Wrangler, Mathematical Tripos, 1935; MA). John Frederick Clarke was his student.
He was awarded an OBE in 1964, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973. He was awarded the Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics) for "outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace engineering" in 1976.
He is buried in the Jewish Section of Cambridge City Cemetery.