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Peter J. Young was born on 31 July, 1954 in England. Discover Peter J. Young's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 27 years old?

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Age 27 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 31 July 1954
Birthday 31 July
Birthplace England
Date of death (1981-09-05) Pasadena
Died Place Pasadena
Nationality United States

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1981

In 1981, Young realised that the multiple images in Q0957+561 would be affected by the gravitational fields of a large number of stars in the lensing galaxy, leading to rapid fluctuations in the magnification of the quasar images. His theoretical study of these superimposed gravitational deflections helped initiate the subject of gravitational microlensing.

On 5 September 1981, Young committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide which he had obtained from a chemistry stockroom at the university. According to Sargent and Peter Goldreich, Young had suffered with depression and psychological issues since his time at Cambridge, and had previously talked about killing himself.

1980

In 1980, Sargent, Young, Boksenberg & Tytler studied the Lyman-alpha forest in the rest-frame ultraviolet portion of quasar spectra, concluding that it arose from absorption by a cosmological distribution of partly ionized neutral Hydrogen, and establishing the existence of the intergalactic medium.

In 1980, Young et al. identified the galaxy responsible for the first gravitational lens, the Double Quasar Q0957+561. This paper produced the first detailed mass models for a cosmological lensing event.

1978

In 1978, Young et al. and Sargent et al. provided evidence from photometry and spectroscopy for a supermassive Black Hole in the nucleus of the elliptical galaxy M87. This object was latterly revealed via direct high-resolution imaging by the Event Horizon Telescope.

1972

Educated at Leeds Grammar School, Young studied mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge (1972-1975), where he was Senior Wrangler (highest-placed First Class degree) in 1975. In 1975-76, he studied for an MSc in astronomy with Gerard de Vaucouleurs at the University of Texas, Austin. In 1976, he began his PhD at the California Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Wallace Sargent. He completed this degree in 18 months, was employed for a further year as a postdoctoral researcher, and then joined the Caltech faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1979, aged 25.

1954

Peter John Young (31 July 1954—5 September 1981) was a British astrophysicist, who made major contributions in theory and observation to extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. During five years at the California Institute of Technology in 1976-1981 he carried out foundational research, including the discovery of the intergalactic medium; the detection of a supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87; detecting the optical counterpart to the first gravitational lens; developing the theory of gravitational microlensing.