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Born in 1974, Young was raised by his mother in a [[single-parent|single-parent household]] and has four siblings.<ref name="White2006-02-08"/> He told the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' in 2006: "We were so poor, a trip to McDonald's once a year was considered a treat."<ref name="White2006-02-08"/> |
Born in 1974, Young was raised by his mother in a [[single-parent|single-parent household]] and has four siblings.<ref name="White2006-02-08"/> He told the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' in 2006: "We were so poor, a trip to McDonald's once a year was considered a treat."<ref name="White2006-02-08"/> |
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Young developed an interest in longevity from an early age. His great-great-uncle was a World War 1 veteran, and his great-great-aunt lived to be 96. <ref>[http://www.vice.com/read/we-spoke-with-the-scientist-studying-how-to-live-as-long-as-possible We spoke with the scientist studying how to live as long as possible - VICE]</ref> |
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In the mid-1990s, he lived in [[Florida]] with his father for two years before he moved back to [[Atlanta]] in 1997. He worked for [[Kroger]] and [[Pizza Hut]] and in 1999 enrolled as a part-time student at [[Georgia Perimeter College]]. Around that time, he became a volunteer at the [[Gerontology Research Group]], an organization that follows the world's oldest people.<ref name="White2006-02-08"/> As a young child who was first drawn to the subject at age 12,<ref name="Conwell2009-02-15">{{cite news |last=Conwell |first=Vikki |date=2009-02-15 |title=Oldest people are his career Atlantan is expert on age champions |url=http://docs.newsbank.com/s/InfoWeb/aggdocs/AWNB/1265F6BE83916420/0D0CB57AB53DF815 |newspaper=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] |accessdate=2015-01-26 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6Vsc2Lrcu |archivedate=2015-01-26 }}</ref> Young regretted not having substantial relationships with the older people in his life who had died.<ref name="Bialik">{{cite news |last=Bialik |first=Carl |date=2010-07-24 |title=Scientists Seek to Tabulate Mysteries of the Aged |url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703467304575383593595643772 |newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |accessdate=2015-01-26 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6VsjIxmNw |archivedate=2015-01-26 }}</ref> As an adult, Young became intrigued by supercentenarians' [[longevity]], having become awed by a [[University of Georgia]] study about them.<ref name="White2006-02-08"/> After gaining experience in the gerontology field, he began to receive monetary compensation for his research.<ref name="White2006-02-08"/> |
In the mid-1990s, he lived in [[Florida]] with his father for two years before he moved back to [[Atlanta]] in 1997. He worked for [[Kroger]] and [[Pizza Hut]] and in 1999 enrolled as a part-time student at [[Georgia Perimeter College]]. Around that time, he became a volunteer at the [[Gerontology Research Group]], an organization that follows the world's oldest people.<ref name="White2006-02-08"/> As a young child who was first drawn to the subject at age 12,<ref name="Conwell2009-02-15">{{cite news |last=Conwell |first=Vikki |date=2009-02-15 |title=Oldest people are his career Atlantan is expert on age champions |url=http://docs.newsbank.com/s/InfoWeb/aggdocs/AWNB/1265F6BE83916420/0D0CB57AB53DF815 |newspaper=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] |accessdate=2015-01-26 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6Vsc2Lrcu |archivedate=2015-01-26 }}</ref> Young regretted not having substantial relationships with the older people in his life who had died.<ref name="Bialik">{{cite news |last=Bialik |first=Carl |date=2010-07-24 |title=Scientists Seek to Tabulate Mysteries of the Aged |url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703467304575383593595643772 |newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |accessdate=2015-01-26 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6VsjIxmNw |archivedate=2015-01-26 }}</ref> As an adult, Young became intrigued by supercentenarians' [[longevity]], having become awed by a [[University of Georgia]] study about them.<ref name="White2006-02-08"/> After gaining experience in the gerontology field, he began to receive monetary compensation for his research.<ref name="White2006-02-08"/> |
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Robert Douglas Young (born May 2, 1974)[1][2] is the Senior Claims Investigator for the Gerontology Research Group[3] and the senior consultant for gerontology for Guinness World Records,[4][5] and is a "former Census worker".[3]
Biography
Born in 1974, Young was raised by his mother in a single-parent household and has four siblings.[1] He told the Chicago Tribune in 2006: "We were so poor, a trip to McDonald's once a year was considered a treat."[1]
Young developed an interest in longevity from an early age. His great-great-uncle was a World War 1 veteran, and his great-great-aunt lived to be 96. [6]
In the mid-1990s, he lived in Florida with his father for two years before he moved back to Atlanta in 1997. He worked for Kroger and Pizza Hut and in 1999 enrolled as a part-time student at Georgia Perimeter College. Around that time, he became a volunteer at the Gerontology Research Group, an organization that follows the world's oldest people.[1] As a young child who was first drawn to the subject at age 12,[7] Young regretted not having substantial relationships with the older people in his life who had died.[8] As an adult, Young became intrigued by supercentenarians' longevity, having become awed by a University of Georgia study about them.[1] After gaining experience in the gerontology field, he began to receive monetary compensation for his research.[1]
In 2002, Young started helping Jerry Friedman locate and catalog the old people in Friedman's 2005 book Earth's Elders: The Wisdom of the World's Oldest People. In a 2006 interview with the Chicago Tribune, Friedman said, "It was primarily because of [Young] I was able to do this book."[1] Young verifies people's ages for Guinness World Records and Gerontology Research Group.[9] He does the verifications by reviewing documents from baptisms and census data, as well as newspaper articles.[1] Young attends the birthday parties of verified supercentenarians where he is "treated like family" according to the Los Angeles Times.[10]
Carl Bialik of The Wall Street Journal wrote that Young's "work and that of other researchers' has helped to create a new branch of demography: Statistics about the world's best agers."[8]
He attended Georgia State University.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i White, Gayle (2006-02-08). "Supercentenarians giving researchers clues on longevity". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 2015-01-26. Retrieved 2015-01-26.
- ^ http://www.demogr.mpg.de/books/drm/007/3-3.pdf
- ^ a b Zaslow, Jeffrey (2005-02-28). "Gerontology sleuths search for 'supercentenarians'". Wall Street Journal. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
- ^ Tom Leonard (2007-01-30). "Shortest ever reign for world's oldest person". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
- ^ "World's oldest person, Maria Esther de Capovilla, dead at 116". USA Today. 2006-08-28. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
- ^ We spoke with the scientist studying how to live as long as possible - VICE
- ^ Conwell, Vikki (2009-02-15). "Oldest people are his career Atlantan is expert on age champions". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on 2015-01-26. Retrieved 2015-01-26.
- ^ a b Bialik, Carl (2010-07-24). "Scientists Seek to Tabulate Mysteries of the Aged". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2015-01-26. Retrieved 2015-01-26.
- ^ Mandel, Brynn (2006-05-07). "Photographer traveled the world to snap the oldest among us". Republican-American. Archived from the original on 2015-01-26. Retrieved 2015-01-26.
- ^ Malcolm, Andrew H. (2005-06-25). "Hitting the Big Eleven-O". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2015-01-26. Retrieved 2015-01-26.