| Authorised form of name | Brown; Fred (1925 - 2004) |
| Dates | 1925 - 2004 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Burnley, Lancashire, England |
| Date of birth | 31/01/1925 |
| Place of death | Surrey |
| Date of death | 20/02/2004 |
| Occupation | Molecular biologist; virologist |
| Activity | Education:
Burnley Grammar School; Manchester University (first class degree Chemistry, 1944, PhD, 1948)
Career:
Fruit and Vegetable Preservation Station, Chipping Camden, University of Bristol; Hannah Dairy Research Institute, Ayr; Christie Hospital, Manchester (1953-1955); Biochemistry department, Animal Virus Research Institute, Pirbright, Surrey (1955-1983), Head of Department (1964-1983), deputy director (1980-1983); member of international committee on the taxonomy of viruses (1968-1981), president (1981-1987); chairman, comparative virology programme run by WHO and UN; scientific secretary, International Association of Biological Standardisation (1980); Chair, Royal Society Biological Education Committee (1983-1987); head of virology and development department, Wellcome Biotechnology, Beckenham (1983-1995); Adjunct Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University (1990); Visiting scientist, US Department of Agriculture Plum Island Disease Center, New York (1995-2004); consultant with US Department of Agriculture (1990-2004); spongiform encephalopathy advisory committee (1990-1998); Honorary Member, Society for General Microbiology (1991), member of council, editor in chief, Journal of General Virology (1975-1980); Royal Society Infectious Diseases in Livestock Enquiry
Honours:
OBE 1999 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1981 |
| Age at election | 56 |
| RSActivity | Lectures:
Leeuwenhoek 1993 |
| Relationships | Married (1948) Audrey Alice Doherty |
| Source | Sources:
Obituaries in The Times (15 March 2004), The Telegraph (10 March 2004) and Guardian (10 March 2004)
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs 2007, Volume 53, pp 93-108 by David J Rowlands and Sir John Skehel FRS |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/71452175 |
| Code | NA4721 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1981/06 | Brown, Fred: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1975 |
| IM/GA/JGRS/8252 | Brown, Fred | 1981 |
| RR/79/112 | Referee's report by Otto Robert Frisch, on a paper 'The radioactive decay of Ca41' by Fred Brown, G C Hanna and L Yaffe | 21 June 1953 |