Background
Brown, Louis was born on January 7, 1929 in San Angelo, Texas, United States. Son of Metz and Sadie (Johnson) Bishop.
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Louis Brown, American Physicist, researcher. Achievements include collaboration on building of first operating source of polarized ions, on development of techniques for measuring thecosmogenic isotope 10Be in natural materials, on clarifying nature of threshold state in Be-8, and on demonstrating that lavas from island-arc volcanoes have a sedimentary component. Recipient Amerbach prize U. Basle, 1963.
Education
Bachelor of Science, St. Mary's U., 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, 1958.
Career
Teaching assistant department physics, University Texas Austin, 1952-1958; research assistant department physics, U. Basle, Switzerland, 1958-1961; postdoctoral fellow department terrestrial magnetism, Carnegie Institution, Washington, 1961-1963; staff associate, Carnegie Institution, Washington, 1963-1969; staff scientist, Carnegie Institution, Washington, 1969-1994; emeritus, since 1994. Electronics designer Military Physics Laboratory, Austin, 1955-1957. Acting director department terrestrial magnetism Carnegie Institution, 1991-1992.
Achievements
Membership
With United States Army, 1950-1952. Fellow American Physical Society. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union.
Connections
Married Lore Elisabeth Frick, July 24,1952.
