Simpson Leroy Brown

Simpson Leroy Brown (also S. Leroy Brown , born November 23, 1881 in Brownsburg , Hendricks County , Indiana , United States , † March 18, 1966 in Austin , Travis County , Texas , United States) was an American physicist .

Life

Family and education

Simpson Leroy Brown, son of the late John Wiman Brown (1854-1894) and Mary Catherine Huffer Brown (1854-1934), who came from the town of Brownsburg in the US state of Indiana , devoted himself to studying the after high school graduation Physics at Indiana University in Bloomington , in 1905 he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree , and in 1907 a Master of Arts degree . Simpson Leroy Brown, who was awarded a Whiting Research Fellowship, continued his studies at the University of California, Berkeley , and received his Ph. D. in 1909 .

Simpson Leroy Brown married Josephine Ellen Brown (1883–1959) on July 10, 1910. The couple had an adopted daughter named Elizabeth Bee Brown Meyer (1923-1975). Brown died in Austin in March 1966 at the age of 84.

Professional background

After completing his bachelor's degree, Simpson Leroy Brown was employed as an assistant instructor at Purdue University in West Lafayette . After completing his doctorate, he took on a position as an Instructor of Physics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania . In 1911 Brown moved to the University of Texas in the same position , in 1913 he was promoted to Adjunct Professor , 1917 to Associate Professor , in 1923 to Professor of Physics, in 1954 he was retired . He also served as director of the Fidelity State Bank of Austin, as President of the Academic Board of the United States Air Force Radio School in Penn Field, Texas, and since 1942 as a consultant for the Military Physics Research Laboratory.

Brown was the inventor of the so-called multi-harmonograph, a machine that Brown says can solve technical difficulties in radio and telephone networks. Simpson Leroy Brown was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Physical Society, and a member of Sigma Xi , Sigma Pi Sigma, and Tau Beta Pi. Brown published articles in scientific journals.

Publications

• The residual of inductance and capacity in resistance coils. A standard resistance with balanced inductance and capacity. Thesis submitted for the degree of Ph. D. University of California, Berkeley, 1909
• Electricity and magnetism. H. Holt and Co., New York, 1937

literature

• Indiana University: Indiana University Bulletin. Volume 15, Issue 5. The University, Bloomington, Ind., 1917, p. 106.
• University of Texas: University of Texas Bulletin. Issue 2827. The University, Austin, Tex., 1928, p. 15.
• Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women. : Volume 28 (1954-1955) . Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1955, p. 843.
• Alec Foege: Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio. 1st ed, Faber and Faber, New York, 2008

Web links

• Simpson Leroy Brown in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Simpson Leroy Brown on the Prabook.org website