Maureen Young

She had helped found the Blair Bell Research Society as well as the Neonatal Society of which she was president from 1984 to 1987.

In 1946 after the war's conclusion, Young was recruited to work at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School as a demonstrator in physiology as well as a tutor to assist the newly admitted female students. The need for such tutoring was significant as London's medical schools had not enrolled any women before the war, but after the war the schools were required to admit women as 15 percent of incoming classes.

From 1932 to 1938, Young attended Bedford College for Women in London, first studying for a general degree involving chemistry, physics, botany and zoology, and then earning a BSc in physiology in 1938. She had to retake her first year, as she failed physics. In the summers of 1937 and 1938, Young went to Germany to learn German. Following graduation, she found employment at the college as a demonstrator and later as an assistant lecturer in physiology.

Maureen Young (16 October 1915 – 2013), was a British professor of perinatal physiology at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London.

Young was born on 16 October 1915 in Southwold, England. Her mother Ina Heslop was Irish and her father William Young was an English military physician during World War I. After the war, he was appointed to the pathology department at Guy's Hospital in London, and the family to relocated there. When Young was 11, her parents were reassigned, this time to Singapore, so Maureen and her brother Ian were sent to boarding schools.

During World War II, Young's Bedford College department was evacuated from London, which was under attack, to the Physiological Laboratory at Cambridge where she met Sir Joseph Barcroft (1872–1947). Because of his advancing age, Barcroft needed someone with better vision and finer manual skills to cannulate the tiny vessels. Young was able to do so, thus beginning her lifelong fascination with feto-placental physiology.