Young, Louise Buchwalter
appeared in Glenview Announcements, 13 May 2010, B28
Description
- Media Type
- Genealogical Resource
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Obituaries
- Notes
- Birth Date: 1919-01-01
Spouse: Hobart P. Young
Survived by: Three children, Peyton & Anne Young, & Isabel Halley; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren
Age 90; resident of Lake Forest IL; born on a farm in southern Ohio; 1936 won a scholarship to Vassar College, majored in physics, graduated Phi Beta Kappa; worked at Museum of Modern Art in New York; in WWII joined the Radiation Laboratory at MIT; 1944 married & moved to Winnetka IL; in 1960s wrote series of books on basics of physics, astronomy, geology & environmental sciences; 1973 published Power Over People; also wrote The Unfinished Universe, Sowing the Wind, Earth's Aura, Exploring the Universe, The Blue Planet, & Islands: Portraits of Miniature Worlds (published at age 80); at age 60 earned a Master's of Science degree in Geology at the U. of Chicago where she & her husband established a professorship in environmental science; preceded in death by her husband, Hobart - Date of Publication
- 13 May 2010
- Date Of Event
- May 1, 2010
- Last Name(s)
-
Young
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Glenview Public LibraryEmail:genealogy@glenviewpl.org
URL
Address:
1930 Glenview Road
Glenview, IL 60025
847-729-7500
