Education
Lily Young obtained her bachelor’s degree in microbiology at Cornell University in 1965 and her master’s in 1967, also in microbiology. She did her PhD in environmental biology in professor Ralph Mitchell’s lab at Harvard University, where she obtained her degree in 1972.
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