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James Edward Young was an American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Minneapolis Lakers and the Baltimore Bullets. He was born on 18 January, 1926 in Wheeling, West Virginia. Young attended West Virginia University, where he was a three-time All-American and a two-time All-Southern Conference selection. He was inducted into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame in 1975. Young was drafted by the Minneapolis Lakers in the 1948 NBA draft. He played for the Lakers for two seasons before being traded to the Baltimore Bullets in 1950. He played for the Bullets for three seasons before retiring in 1953. Young was a two-time NBA All-Star and was named to the All-NBA Second Team in 1951. He was also named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 1952. Young was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983. At the age of 97, James Edward Young's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He earned most of his wealth from his professional basketball career.

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Age 98 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 18 January 1926
Birthday 18 January
Birthplace Wheeling, West Virginia
Nationality United States

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1977

In 1977 Young was a founding member of the National Society of Black Physicists. He founded the society with Ronald E. Mickens, with whom he had previously discussed senior Black physicists who became role models for their students. They hosted a meeting at Fisk University to celebrate these "elders", including Halson V. Eagleson, Donald Edwards and John McNeile Hunter. The National Society of Black Physicists emerged from these meetings, an independent society led by African-Americans who "created and developed activities and programs for themselves".

1969

Young researched and taught theoretical particle physics, critical phenomena and nuclear physics in the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. He earned tenure in the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, and was the first black member of faculty to do so. He was interested in the intermediate structures in nuclear reactions. He contributed to several textbooks, including Nuclear, Particle and Many Body Physics and the Intermediate Structure in Nuclear Reactions. Young was the doctoral advisor for Shirley Ann Jackson, the first African-American woman to earn a PhD at MIT, as well as Sylvester James Gates.

1941

Young was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. He attended Lincoln High School and graduated in 1941. Young studied physics at Howard University. He was appointed as a physics instructor at the Hampton Institute, whilst simultaneously completing a master's degree in acoustical engineering at Howard University. He moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research assistant in 1949 and earned a Doctorate in Science in 1953. His early research considered the propagation of noise in pipes. He was a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, Sigma Xi and Beta Kappa Chi. After earning his PhD, Young joined Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he began working on particle physics. He investigated pions and deuteron stripping theory.

1926

James Edward Young (born January 18, 1926) is an American physicist who was the first black tenured faculty member in the Department of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a founding member of the National Society of Black Physicists and a mentor for Shirley Ann Jackson.