Background
O'BRIEN, Brian was born on January 2, 1898 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Michael Philip O'Brien and Lina Prime O’Brien.
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Brian O'BRIEN
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Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
Career
Professor, of Physiological Optics, University of Rochester, New York 1930-1946, Research Professor, of Physics and Optics 1946-1954, Director Institute of Optics 1938-1954. Viee-President and Director of Research, American Optical Company, Massachusetts 1953-1958. Consulting Physicist and Engineer since 1958.
President Optical Society of America 1951-1953. Chairman Division of Physical Sciences, National Research Council 1953-1961. Chairman National Academy, of Sciences advisory Committee to Air Force Systems Command since 1962.
Chairman Space Program Advisory Council, NASA 1970-1973.
Membership
United States.A.F. Scientific Advisory Board since 1959. N.A.S., American Philosophical Society, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, National Academy, of Engineering.
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Married 1st Ethel Dickerman in 1922 (deceased), 2nd. Mary Nelson Firth in 1956.
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American