Thomas Townsend Brown

Background

Brown, Thomas Townsend was born on March 18, 1905 in Zanesville, Ohio, United States. Son of Lewis and Mary (Townsend) Brown.

Education

Student, California Institute of Technology, 1922—1923. Student, Kenyon College, 1923—1924. Student, Bowdoin College, 1941.

Career

Laboratory assistant Electronics Research department Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 1924—1925. Staff member Astrophysics Research Laboratory Swazey Observatory, 1926—1930. Junior physicist Radiation and Spectroscopy Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, 1930—1933.

Engineer state erosion Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Columbus, Ohio, 1934. Assistant administrator relief Ohio, director federal student aid, director selection Commodity Credit Corporation, 1934—1935. Researcher Cosmic Radiation Observations Townsend Brown Foundation, Zanesville, 1936—1937, Laguna Beach, California, 1936—1937.

Material and process engineer Glenn L. Martin Company, Baltimore, 1939—1940. Officer Magnetic and Acoustic Minesweeping Research and Development Bureau Ships United States Navy Department, Washington, 1940—1941. Radar consultant advanced design section Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California, 1944—1945.

Individual research biophysics, plant growth Kauai, Hawaii, 1948—1952. Consultant physicist Société Nationale Construction Aeronautique, Paris, 1955—1956. Chief consultant Research and Development Whitehall-Rand project Bahnson Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1957—1958.

President Research and Development International, Ltd., Nassau, 1958—1974, Energy Resources Group, Ltd., Honolulu, 1974—1982. Staff physicist Navy-Princeton Gravity Expedition, West Indies Navy Department, 1932. Physicist Johnson-Smithsonian deep sea expedition Smithsonian, 1933.

Consultant physicist Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Honolulu, 1950. Consultant Clevite-Brush Electronics Company, Cleveland, 1954. Lieutenant Commander United States Naval Reserve, 1933-1943.

Achievements

• Thomas Townsend Brown has been listed as a noteworthy physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member: Geophysical Union, Asron. Society Pacific, Physics Society, Society Naval Engineers.

Connections

Married Josephine Alberta Beale, September 8, 1927. Children: Joseph Townsend, Linda Annual.

Father:

Lewis Brown

Mother:

Mary (Townsend) Brown

Spouse:

Josephine Alberta Beale

child:

Joseph Townsend Brown

child:

Linda Annual Brown