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Authorised form of nameBrown; Fred (1925 - 2004)
Dates1925 - 2004
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBurnley, Lancashire, England
Date of birth31/01/1925
Place of deathSurrey
Date of death20/02/2004
OccupationMolecular biologist; virologist
ActivityEducation:
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 categoryFellow
Date of election19/03/1981
Age at election56
RSActivityLectures:
Leeuwenhoek 1993
RelationshipsMarried (1948) Audrey Alice Doherty
SourceSources:
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 Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/71452175
CodeNA4721
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1981/06Brown, Fred: certificate of election to the Royal Society1975
IM/GA/JGRS/8252Brown, Fred1981
RR/79/112Referee's report by Otto Robert Frisch, on a paper 'The radioactive decay of Ca41' by Fred Brown, G C Hanna and L Yaffe21 June 1953
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