Michael Brown (physicist)
{{Short description|British physicist (born 1946)}}
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| office = 2nd Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University
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| term_end = 2011
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Brian May, CBE
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| birth_place = Hereford, England
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| nationality = British
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| children = Steve Christopher and Sally Melissa
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Michael A. Brown, CBE, DL, FInstP, FIET, FRSA,{{Cite web | url=http://www.policyreview.tv/conference/410.html |title = Policy Review Tv}} (born 19 May 1946) was the 2nd Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom{{Cite web |url=http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/Governors/64915.htm#Professor%20Michael%20Brown |title=Governors' Biographies |access-date=2008-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218234301/http://ljmu.ac.uk/Governors/64915.htm#Professor%20Michael%20Brown |archive-date=2009-02-18 |url-status=dead }} between 2000 and 2011.
Education
He attended Bridgend Grammar School for Boys. In 1971, he obtained his PhD at the University of Nottingham with a thesis entitled Investigation of Phonon Scattering and Cross-relaxation by Paramagnetic Ions Using Thermal Conductivity Techniques.{{Cite web |url=http://aleph.nottingham.ac.uk/F/ARKMVTKHH4K1424KP8GDEGJA1I59X1NR5KJJ981GVDKK1GKN6Q-03567?func=full-set-set&set_number=003844&set_entry=000001&format=999 |title=UoN - Full View of Record |access-date=27 August 2014 |archive-date=27 August 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140827160813/http://aleph.nottingham.ac.uk/F/ARKMVTKHH4K1424KP8GDEGJA1I59X1NR5KJJ981GVDKK1GKN6Q-03567?func=full-set-set&set_number=003844&set_entry=000001&format=999 |url-status=dead }}
100th Roscoe Lecture
In May 2011, Michael Brown delivered the 100th lecture of the Liverpool John Moores University Roscoe Lectures at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, as named after by William Roscoe.{{Cite web | url=http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/education/education-news/2011/05/16/vice-chancellor-of-liverpool-john-moores-professor-michael-brown-delivers-100th-roscoe-lecture-92534-28698982/ |title = Liverpool Echo: Latest Liverpool and Merseyside news, sports and what's on}}
References
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080510182919/http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ada/93783.htm Welcome/A message from Vice-Chancellor Michael Brown
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090218234301/http://ljmu.ac.uk/Governors/64915.htm#Professor%20Michael%20Brown
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