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Young symmetrizer

A Young symmetrizer is an element of the symmetric group algebra that symmetrizes over a Young tableau's rows and antisymmetrizes over its columns, constructing every irreducible representation.

Young syndrome

Young syndrome (sinusitis-infertility syndrome, ORPHA:3471) is a rare male disorder combining bronchiectasis, chronic sinusitis, and obstructive azoospermia from thick mucus; cilia and sweat glands are normal, and mercury exposure is a proposed cause.

Young tableau

A Young tableau, in its standard form a Standard Young tableau, is a filling of a Young diagram with increasing rows and columns, central to symmetric function theory.

Young the Giant

Young the Giant, originally the Jakes, is an American alternative rock band from Irvine, California, known for RIAA gold singles "My Body" and "Cough Syrup" and six albums through 2026's Victory Garden.

Young Thug

Young Thug (Jeffery Lamar Williams), Atlanta rapper and YSL Records founder, pioneer of melodic mumble rap; three Billboard 200 No. 1 albums, RICO trial, 2024 plea and release.

Young Thug discography

The Young Thug discography catalogs releases by American rapper Jeffery Lamar Williams, born in Atlanta in 1991, whose first studio album So Much Fun arrived in 2019.

Young Tom Morris

Young Tom Morris (Thomas Morris Jr., 1851–1875), Scottish golfer, son of Old Tom Morris; won four consecutive Opens (1868, 1869, 1870, 1872), youngest major champion at 17, won Challenge Belt outright 1870; died Christmas Day 1875, aged 24.

Young Tunisians

The Young Tunisians (Arabic: حركة الشباب التونسي) was the first organized Tunisian nationalist movement, launched in 1907 under French rule to seek educational and political reforms.

Young Turk Revolution

The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908): CUP-led uprising in Ottoman Macedonia, begun at Resna by Niazi Bey, that forced Abdul Hamid II to restore the 1876 constitution on 24 July 1908, opening the Second Constitutional Period.

Young Turks

Young Turks (Jön Türkler): European-coined label for Ottoman constitutionalist opposition to Abdülhamit II, 1878–1908, and the CUP-dominated era 1908–1918; 1908 revolution, 1909 counter-coup, 1913 coup, Balkan losses, end in 1918.

Young Union

Young Union (Junge Union, JU) is the joint youth organization of Germany's CDU and CSU, founded in 1947; Europe's largest party youth wing with about 90,000 members aged 14 to 35 and a major CDU/CSU recruitment channel.

Young Vienna

Young Vienna (Jung-Wien) was a group of writers active in Vienna from about 1890, centered on Hermann Bahr and regarded as founding modern Austrian literature.

Young Wallander

Young Wallander is a Netflix British-Swedish crime drama (2020-2022, 12 episodes) starring Adam Pålsson as a young Kurt Wallander solving his first case in contemporary Malmö; filmed in Vilnius, cancelled after two seasons.

Young Washington

Young Washington is a 2026 Jon Erwin historical biopic from Angel Studios and Wonder Project about George Washington's early years and the French and Indian War, starring William Franklyn-Miller, released July 3, 2026, grossing $20.8 million on opening weekend.

Young Winston

Young Winston is Richard Attenborough's 1972 biographical drama of Winston Churchill's early life, 1881-1901, written and produced by Carl Foreman from Churchill's memoir My Early Life, starring Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, and Anne Bancroft, a Columbia Pictures epic.

Young Woman and the Sea

Young Woman and the Sea is Disney's 2024 biographical sports drama directed by Joachim Rønning, starring Daisy Ridley as swimmer Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel in 1926, adapted from Glenn Stout's 2009 book.

Young-Kai Chen

Young-Kai Chen (1953–2026) was an electrical engineer who led Bell Labs' High Speed Electronics Research group, pioneered silicon photonics, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.

Young-onset Parkinson disease

Young-onset Parkinson disease (YOPD), also called early-onset Parkinson's disease, is Parkinson's disease beginning between ages 21 and 40, with stronger genetic contribution, slower progression, and earlier levodopa-induced dyskinesia than late-onset PD.

Young-Shin Kim

Young-Shin Kim is a child psychiatrist and psychiatric epidemiologist known for her 2011 study finding 2.64% autism prevalence in 55,266 South Korean schoolchildren, and for research on bullying and youth psychopathology.

Young-Tae Chang

Young-Tae Chang (장영태) is a South Korean chemist and professor at POSTECH known for the diversity-oriented fluorescence library approach and live-cell probes such as CDy1 and NeuO.

Young‐Shin Jun

Young-Shin Jun is an environmental engineer and professor at Washington University in St. Louis who directs the Environmental NanoChemistry Laboratory, studying nanoscale chemistry for CO2 sequestration and water treatment.

Young–Laplace equation

The Young–Laplace equation, also called the Laplace formula, is the fundamental equation of capillarity, giving the pressure difference across a curved fluid interface as surface tension times curvature.

Young, Famous & African

Young, Famous & African is a Netflix reality series, the platform's first African reality show, premiering March 18, 2022. It follows celebrities including Khanyi Mbau and Diamond Platnumz in Johannesburg across three seasons.

Young's inequality

Young's inequality is a pair of estimates in analysis, proven by William Henry Young in 1912, bounding a product ab by a weighted sum of powers.

Young's interference experiment

Young's interference experiment, also called Young's double-slit experiment, is Thomas Young's 1801 demonstration that light is a wave, shown by interference fringes from two overlapping beams.

Young's modulus

Young's modulus, also called tensile modulus and usually written E, is the elastic constant measuring a solid's stiffness under tension or compression, defined as the ratio of stress to strain.

Youngblood (1986 film)

Youngblood is a 1986 American sports drama directed by Peter Markle, starring Rob Lowe as a farm boy who joins a Canadian junior hockey team to reach the NHL.

Youngblood (2025 film)

Youngblood (2025) is a Canadian sports drama directed by Hubert Davis, reimagining the 1986 Rob Lowe cult hockey classic with Ashton James as Dean Youngblood, a Black prodigy from Detroit; premiered at TIFF 2025 and released March 6, 2026.

Youngblood (5 Seconds of Summer album)

Youngblood is the 2018 third studio album by Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer, released by Capitol Records on June 15, 2018. It shifted the band from pop punk to dance-pop and new wave, hit No. 1 in the US and Australia, and its title track was Australia's top single of 2018 with 7x Platinum certification.

YoungBoy Never Broke Again

YoungBoy Never Broke Again (NBA YoungBoy), born Kentrell DeSean Gaulden in 1999, is a prolific Baton Rouge rapper with four Billboard 200 number-one albums, 16 top-ten albums, a 2024 federal gun sentence, and a 2025 Trump pardon.