Background
Brown, Allan Harvey was born on September 14, 1917 in Newark. Son of Harvey Winfield and Emma Cecil (Abbot) Brown.
Brown, Allan Harvey was born on September 14, 1917 in Newark. Son of Harvey Winfield and Emma Cecil (Abbot) Brown.
Bachelor of Science, University Maryland, 1939. Master of Science, University Rochester, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy in Botany, University Rochester, 1944.
Master of Science (honorary), University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Graduate assistant, U. Rochester, New York, 1939-1942;
research assistant in physiology School Medicine and Dentistry, U. Rochester, New York, 1942-1944;
staff member Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1944-1945;
research associate chemistry department Fels Fund, University of Chicago, 1945-1947;
assistant professor, associate professor, professor botany, University of Minnesota, 1947-1963;
department chairman, University of Minnesota, 1957-1960;
professor biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1963;
department chairman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1963-1968;
director Gravitational Plant Physiology Laboratory, U. City Science Center, 1972-1993. Member Executive Committee division biology and agriculture National Research Council, 1963-1968. Board of trustees Biological Abstracts, 1966-1971, board president, 1971.
Member space science board National Research Council, 1962-1972. Executive member COSPAR Sub-Commision on Gravitational Biology, 1984-1988;member International Union of Physiological Sciences Commision on Gravitational Physiology. Member National Science Foundation Panel for Molecular Biology, 1954-1958, National Science Foundation Panel for Life Sciences Facilities, 1961-1962.
Consultant National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961-1972. Member Pennsylvania Governor's Science Advisory Committee, 1965-1970. Member American Institute Biological Science/National Aeronautics and Space Administration Planetry Quarantine Panel, 1972-1975.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Institute Biological Sciences (advising committee for Office Naval Research 1953-1958), American Society Plant Physiologists, Botanical Society American, European Low Gravity Research Association, Japanese Society Plant Physiologists, American Society Gravitational and Space Biology (president 1985), International Academy Astronautics, Sigma Xi. M C.
Married Helen Somers, June 14, 1941 (deceased June 1980). Children: Bonnie, Kenneth, Janice.