User:Jimbo Young/sandbox

About the Author Richard W. Young is Professor emeritus from the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical School. After four years in the Marine Corps, he obtained a BA degree in biology from Antioch college (1956), where he was a research assistant at the Fels Research Institute. He next was a Predoctoral Fellow of the US Public Health Service at Columbia University, where he completed a Ph.D program in human anatomy (1959), followed by a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship spent at the University of Bari (Italy) and the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden). He subsequently received training in the use of radioisotopes at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (1963) and in electron microscopic autoradiography at the Centre d’Études Nucléaires (Saclay, France, 1966-1967). In 1977 he was a Visiting Professor at Wolfson College, Cambridge University (England). Dr. Young joined the faculty of the Department of Anatomy, UCLA Medical School in 1960 as an Assistant Professor, attaining the rank of Professor in 1968. His primary teaching assignment was in microscopic anatomy, a course which he chaired for several years. Laboratory research, funded by the US Public Health Service and primarily based upon autoradiography, was   applied  to   questions  of  cell  biology  in bones, teeth, the ocular  lens, and  particularly  the visual cells of the retina, in which he discovered the continual renewal of the outer segments of the rods and cones. He received several awards recognizing his research, including an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Chicago in 1980. Dr. Young retired from his academic duties at UCLA in 1991, but continued to follow various aspects of science actively, becoming dedicated to the topic of human evolution in 1998. His motto is “Ancora imparo”.