Gerald E. Brown
Gerald Edward Brown | |
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| Born | July 22, 1926 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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.