Background
Roger William Brown was born on April 14, 1925, in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
University of Michigan
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roger William Brown was born on April 14, 1925, in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
Brown attended the University of Michigan, where he received his bachelor's degree and a doctorate in psychology.
Brown started his career as an Instructor in Social Psychology at Harvard University in 1952. From 1953 to 1957 he served as an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology while initiating his revolutionary investigation of language acquisition, beginning with a theoretical paper on how young children discover the meanings of words. Brown’s first book, Words and Things, was published in 1957. The same year he started teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After teaching at MIT for five years, Brown returned to Harvard as Professor of Social Psychology in 1962 and remained there till his retirement in 1995.
Physical Characteristics: Brown had been suffering from prostate cancer and coronary artery disease.