Career
His photograph of Watson and Crick soon after they had discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, later became the iconic image of the pair. He was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He worked at Dexion in the mid-1950s and designed a successful system called Speedframe.
In 1955-1956 Barrington Brown was part of the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, a 32,000-mile trip overland from Hyde Park Corner to Singapore, and back.
The trip was recorded in the book First Overland: London-Singapore by Land Rover by Tim Slessor. He was educated at Street Edward"s School, Oxford, and following National Service, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
