Background
Brown, Frank Arthur was born on August 30, 1908 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frank Arthur and Arletta Esten (Robinson) Brown.
Brown, Frank Arthur was born on August 30, 1908 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frank Arthur and Arletta Esten (Robinson) Brown.
Bachelor of Arts, Bowdoin College, 1929, Doctor of Science (honorary), 1983. Master of Arts, Harvard University. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1934.
Austin Teaching fellow Harvard, 1929-1932, teaching assistant in zoology, 1932-1934.
Instructor University of Illinois, 1934-1937. Assistant professor zoology Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1937-1940, associate professor, 1940-1946, professor, from 1946, department chairman biological science, 1949-1956, Morrison professor biology, 1956-1976, emeritus, 1976-1983.
Instructor Mount Desert Biology Laboratory, summer 1940. Visiting professor University of Chicago, summer 1941.
National lecturer Sigma Xi, 1968.
Associate and book review editor Physiological Zoology, 1942-1976. In charge department invertebrate zoology Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1945-1949.
Assistant professor zoology Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Editor Physiol; General Physiologists (president
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Animal Behavior Society. Member American Association of University Professors, American Society Zoologists (vice president 1954), American Society Limnology and Oceanography, American Physiological Society, Society Study Growth and Development, Illinois Academy Science, Society Extpl. Biology and Medicine, American Institute Biological Sciences, American Society Naturalists (vice president 1956), Society General Physiologists (president 1955), Ecological Society American, American Society Plant Physiologists, American Geophysical Union, Society Chronobiology, International Society Biometeorology, New York Academy Sciences, Explorers.
Club: Harvard (Chicago.
Married Jennie Wentworth Pettegrove, June 24, 1934. Children: Charlotte, Frank Arthur, Marilyn Diane.