Harrison Scott Brown was an American nuclear chemist and geochemist.
17 Facts About Harrison Brown
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Harrison Brown was a political activist, who lectured and wrote on the issues of arms limitation, natural resources and world hunger.
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Harrison Brown gave 102 lectures to promote the book, donating the royalties from the book to an organisation that later became part of the Federation of American Scientists.
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In 1946, Harrison Brown returned to the University of Chicago to work as an assistant professor of chemistry in the Institute for Nuclear Studies.
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Harrison Brown was joined by some of his former colleagues from the Manhattan Project and together they became the first team to study nuclear geochemistry.
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Harrison Brown went on to study meteorites and planetary structures along with ways to date the age of the Earth, encouraging George Tilton and Clair Patterson to investigate the isotopic composition of iron meteorites.
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In 1948 Harrison Brown was awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Science prize for his work on meteorites.
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Between 1951 and 1977, Harrison Brown was professor of geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology.
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Harrison Brown was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1955 and was appointed as their foreign secretary in January 1962, a role that he would hold until 1974.
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Harrison Brown was elected in 1959 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1962 a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and in 1966 a member of the American Philosophical Society.
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Harrison Brown demonstrated an interest in the scientific interactions between the United States and Eastern Europe.
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Harrison Brown wrote a science fiction novel, The Cassiopeia Affair with Chloe Zerwick.
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Harrison Brown divorced Adele and married Rudd Owen, who collaborated with him on his writings and social activism.
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In 1983, in failing health, Harrison Brown retired and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico with his third wife, Theresa Tellez, his second marriage having ended in divorce.
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Harrison Brown became a regular columnist and editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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Harrison Brown died in the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque on December 8,1986.
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Harrison Brown was survived by his third wife Theresa and his son Eric.