John Young

Professor Young is one of the world's leading scientists in the field of glandular physiology and renal amino acid transport. He was the first to succeed in demonstrating, directly, the loci for electrolyte secretion in salivary glands, and in elucidating the nervous control of the secretion, work which has been of great importance in clarifying basic secretory processes in exocrine glands. He made the first micropuncture analysis of the secretory processes of the seminiferous tubules and was the first to detect the inhomogeneity of the proximal renal tubule in regard to amino acid transport. Professor Young has followed a broad approach towards epithelial transport processes investigating other glands, such as the thyroid follicle and the pancreas, and making important contributions to all of them.

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