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He was born on 8 February 1916 in Scotland. His father fought and died at Gallipoli in World War I. His mother took him to New Zealand when he was four years old.
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He was born on 8 February 1916 in Scotland. His father fought and died at Gallipoli in World War I. His mother took him to New Zealand when he was four years old.
He studied at the University of New Zealand and graduated in 1937 with a Master of Science degree.
In 1936 he started work in a field geologist job at the New Zealand Geological Survey. In 1938 he changed jobs, working for the New Zealand Petroleum Exploration Group. When World World War II broke out he first joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and then later the Royal Navy.
He took up flying aircraft from aircraft carriers, in the Fleet Air Armenian
He was posted to the Barents Sea and North Sea. His highlight was to bomb the German battleship Tirpitz in April 1944 in Altenfjord a Norwegian fjord while flying a Fairey Barracuda torpedo bomber in Operation Tungsten.
After the war they lived in London. Brown was given a post graduate scholarship to study Bryozoa (or Polyzoans) from the Tertiary period in New Zealand.
His jobs were at the Imperial College of Science and Technology and the British Museum of Natural History.
In 1948 he graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy and a Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation, and an award of the Lyell Fund from the Geological Society of London in 1953. He became a world expert on polyzoa, and a good taxonomist. After this he migrated back to New Zealand and rejoined the New Zealand Geological Survey.
The Otago University recruited him as a lecturer in 1950.
In 1959 he accepted at job at the Canberra University College as the chair of geology. He set up the geology department, not specialising but employing people with a range of specialities.
At various times he was the dean of science, dean of students, and he ensured the library had a good range of journals. Brown was the president of the Geological Society of Australia.
He was skilled at translating Russian to English and wrote a Russian to English dictionary for geoscience.
A Bryzoan species from the Schizoporellidae was named after him, Dakaria dabrowni. A mollusc Mauidrillia browni is named after him. He died 3 November 2009 in Sydney.
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Trustee commission on film Museum Modern Art, New York City Served as First lieutenant, Military Intelligence Army of the United States, World World War World War II. Member Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (recipient Irving G. Thalberg Memorial award 1991), Producers Guild American (David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement award 1993), National Press Club (Washington), Coffee House Club (New York City), Board of Visitors Columbia University Grad School of Journalism, Players Club (New York City, Dutch Treat (New York City), Century Association (New York City), New York Friars Club.
Married Liberty LeGacy, April 15, 1940 (divorced 1951). 1 son, Bruce LeGacy; Married Wayne Clark, May 25, 1951 (divorced 1957). Married Helen Gurley, September 25, 1959.