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Authorised form of nameBrown; John (1850 - 1911)
Dates1850 - 1911
Date of birth24 February 1850
Date of death01/11/1911
OccupationManufacturer
Research fieldElectricity
ActivityCareer:
In business; studied electricity; worked on the science of road making and testing, and the construction of motors
Memberships:
Physical Society; AIEE; Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society; Ulster Amateur Photographic Society
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/06/1902
RelationshipsSon of a linen merchant in the North of Ireland
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1913 vol 88 pp vi-viii signed by J L
CodeNA5620
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1902/06Brown, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/6/662Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Brown, Belair, Windsor Avenue, Belfast23 June 1892
NLB/24/751Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to John Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast4 July 1902
MS/603/1/156Letter from J [John] Brown, Edenderry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor10 April 1894
MS/603/1/149Letter from J [John] Brown, Helen's Bay, to [Joseph] Larmor29 September 1886
MS/603/1/154Letter from J [John] Brown, Edenderry House, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor16 January 1894
MS/603/1/150Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor17 February 1903
MS/603/1/152Letter from J [John] Brown, Edenderry House, to [Joseph] Larmor25 January 1889
MS/603/1/151Letter from J [John] Brown, Edenderry House, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor7 October 1886
MS/603/1/153Letter from J [John] Brown, Belair, Windsor Avenue, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor9 February 1892
MS/603/1/158Letter from J [John] Brown, Edenberry House, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor10 November 1895
MS/603/1/160Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor22 April 1897
PP/9/9Paper, 'A theory of voltaic action' by John Brown1886
MS/603/1/164Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor31 December 1898
MS/603/1/163Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor3 June 1898
MS/603/1/165Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor4 January 1899
MS/603/1/159Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor6 February 1897
MS/603/1/167Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor19 January 1902
MS/603/1/169Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor30 January 1903
MS/603/1/161Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor30 May 1898
MS/603/1/170Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor13 April 1903
MS/603/1/166Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor5 March 1900
MS/603/1/157Letter from J [John] Brown, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor5 October 1895
MS/603/1/155Letter from J [John] Brown, Edenderry, to [Joseph] Larmor3 February 1894
MS/603/1/168Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor15 January 1903
MS/603/1/171Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor28 December 1903
MS/603/1/162Letter from J [John] Brown, Longhurst, Dunmurry, Belfast, to [Joseph] Larmor28 January 1898
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