Walter Lyons Brown

Background

Brown, Walter Lyons was born on October 11, 1924 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Son of Frederick Lyons and Maude Marie (Towne) Brown.

Education

Student, Davidson College, 1942-1943; Bachelor of Science in Physics, Duke U., 1945; Master of Arts in Physics, Harvard University, 1948; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Harvard University, 1951.

Career

Member technical staff, American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1950-1958; head department radiation physics research, American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1958-1990; head department thin film metal and dialectric research, American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, since 1990.

Achievements

• Walter Lyons Brown has been listed as a noteworthy Research physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served with United States Naval Reserve. Fellow American Physical Society. Member National Academy Engineering, National Academy Science, Materials Research Society (Von Hippel award 1984).

Connections

Married Lucie Mae Oakes, June 14, 1946. Children: Stephen Lyons, Stuart Nelson, Virginia Marie, Keith Anderson.

Father:

Frederick Lyons Brown

Mother:

Maude Marie (Towne) Brown

Spouse:

Lucie Mae Oakes

child:

Stuart Nelson Brown

child:

Virginia Marie Brown

child:

Stephen Lyons Brown

child:

Keith Anderson Brown