February 25, 2010

Resume of Lee A. Young, The ThesisEditor


Education:

• BA, Physics and Philosophy, Yale University

• PhD, Physics, Harvard University

 Copyediting experience (20 years):

          • 67 scholarly or scientific books for Cambridge University Press (includes some proofreading) (see list of titles)

          • 22,450 pages of college textbooks (several in economics)

          • 212 journal articles by non-native writers of English

          • 39 articles for Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

          • 23 articles/reviews for The Review of Politics (directly for CUP)

          • Serving as the copyeditor for the Journal of the History of Economic Thought

                   —77 articles/reviews (directly for CUP)

          • High school mathematics textbooks

Subjects of experience in copyediting:

          • physics  • math  • astronomy  • geophysics  • engineering

          • chemistry  • biochemistry  • biology  • nutrition  • ornithology

          • economics  • history  • intellectual history  • classics  • Middle Ages

Professional Experience (36 years)

• Published articles in Physical Review, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal, and Applied Optics

          • Research in high-energy physics, re-entry physics, electrical engineering

Lee Adams Young

127 Kingfisher Lane

Mills River, NC 28759, USA

828-435-0525

leeayoung@live.com

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