John Young was a towering figure in Australian physiology, a global expert on exocrine secretion and the undoubted authority on salivary secretion, as evidenced by nine ISI defined citation classics and nearly 5,000 citations in all. After studying medicine in Brisbane, John travelled to Sydney for doctoral training in renal physiology, followed by post-doctoral studies in Berlin, before returning to Australia in 1966 to a Senior Lectureship in Physiology at Sydney University. Subsequently he was promoted to Professor and Head of Department, before becoming Dean of Medicine in 1989 and then Pro-Vice- Chancellor for Health Sciences in 1996, a post he held until his retirement in April 2003.

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