Gerald E. Brown

Gerald Edward Brown
Gerald Edward Brown
Born	July 22, 1926; Brookings, South Dakota, US
Died	May 31, 2013 (aged 86); New York City, US
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin; Yale University; University of Birmingham
Known for	Elucidating the effects of various nuclear constituents on nucleon interactions and nucleon structure
Awards	Hans Bethe Prize; Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics; Max Planck Medal
	Scientific career
Fields	Quantum mechanics, Nuclear Physics
Institutions	Stony Brook University; NORDITA; Princeton University
Theses	Effects of nuclear motion of the fine and hyperfine structure of hydrogen (1950); Contributions to the theory of electron interactions, gamma ray scattering, high energy scattering and low energy nuclear reactions (1957);
Doctoral advisors	Gregory Breit (at Yale); Rudolf Peierls (at Birmingham)
Doctoral students	Elliott H. Lieb ; Che-Ming Ko ; Ulf-G. Meißner ; Kevin S. Bedell
Website	tonic.physics.sunysb.edu/faculty/brown/

Gerald Edward Brown (also known as Gerry Brown, July 22, 1926 - May 31, 2013) was an American theoretical physicist who worked on nuclear physics and astrophysics. Since 1968 he had been a professor at the Stony Brook University. He was a distinguished professor emeritus of the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University.

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