J. W. T. Youngs

John William Theodore Youngs, usually cited as J. W. T. Youngs and known as Ted Youngs (21 August 1910 in Bilaspur, India to 20 July 1970 in Santa Cruz, California), was an American mathematician and the son of a missionary. He completed his undergraduate study at Wheaton College and received his doctorate from Ohio State University in 1934 under Tibor Radó. He then taught for 18 years at Indiana University, where he chaired the mathematics department for eight years, and from 1964 he was a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he developed the mathematics faculty and chaired the academic senate. He worked in geometric topology and is famous for the Ringel-Youngs theorem, Ringel and Youngs's 1968 proof of the Heawood conjecture.