Person Brown; Fred (1925 - 2004) Brown Fred 1925 - 2004 British Male Burnley, Lancashire, England 31/01/1925 19250131 Surrey 20/02/2004 20040220

Molecular biologist; virologist 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 Married (1948) Audrey Alice Doherty Lectures: Leeuwenhoek 1993 Fellow 19/03/1981 56 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 31 Jan 1925 - 20 Feb 2004 NA4721 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/71452175 c9820be4-400f-44d9-8441-7284a57876b2