Laurie Brown (physicist)

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Laurie Mark Brown (* 1923 in New York ) is an American historian of science and physicist (elementary particle physics).

Life

Brown studied at Cornell University , where he received his doctorate in 1951 under Richard Feynman . Since 1950 he was at Northwestern University . Here he became a professor of physics. In 1952/53 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . 1958 to 1960 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Italy and 1966 professor in Vienna at the International Atomic Energy Agency . 1960 to 1970 he was a consultant at the Argonne National Laboratory and on their accelerator committee.

Brown is one of the leading historians of science for the development of quantum field theory and elementary particle physics, especially after 1945. One focus of his work in the 1990s was the history of modern physics in Japan.

He reissued Feynman's 1942 PhD thesis on Path Integrals , Memories of Feynman ("Most of the good stuff") and Selected Articles by Feynman at World Scientific .

Brown is a co-founder of the American Physical Society's Forum on History of Physics , a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the History of Science Society . In 1961 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Fonts

  • with Abraham Pais , Brian Pippard (Editor): Twentieth Century Physics. IOP, 2nd edition, 3 volumes 1995.
  • with Max Dresden , Lillian Hoddeson : From Pions to Quarks- Particle physics in the 1950s. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  • with Helmut Rechenberg : Origin of the concept of nuclear forces. Taylor and Francis, 1996.
  • Editor: Renormalization - from Lorentz to Landau and beyond. Springer, 1993.
  • Editor with Lillian Hoddeson: The birth of particle physics. Cambridge University Press 1983 (International Symposium on the history of particle physics, Fermilab 1980), 1997.
  • Editor with Lillian Hoddeson, Michael Riordan, Max Dresden: The rise of the standard model. A history of particle physics from 1964 to 1979. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Feynman, Brown: "Radiative corrections to Compton Scattering". Physical Review, Vol. 85, 1952, pp. 231-244.
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Laurie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Laurie M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist and historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City