Douglas Youvan

Douglas Charles Youvan (born 1955) is an American scientist.

Biography
Youvan received an Associate's degree in Electronics and a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Pittsburg State University. He received his Ph.D. degree inbiophysics from UC Berkeley.

Youvan was an Associate Professor of Chemistry at MIT, where he specialized in the study of photosynthesis, specifically the spectral analysis of photosynthetic bacteria. Youvan, along with Mary M. Yang, developed instrumentation to study the spectra of bacteria directly from a petri dish. Their technology was later employed by NASA.

He founded Karios Scientific Inc. together with Mary M. Yang.