Person
Brown, Edward Byam (1880 - 1966)
- Born
- 31 July 1880
Strathdownie, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 16 May 1966
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Physicist and Electrical engineer
Summary
Edward Brown was associate professor in electrical engineering, University of Melbourne 1930-1946. He was the husband of Vera Scantlebury Brown.
Details
He also volunteered as an Australian Munitions Worker to the UK during WW1 and worked in England as an electrical draftsman during 1917. (It looks like he struggled to find positions suited to his skills). He returned to Australia at the end of 1917. [Courtesy of Mark Rogers 2024]
Chronology
- 1898 - 1902
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne (Ormond College)
- 1905
- Education - ACGI City & Guilds College, London, UK
- 1905 - 1907
- Career position - General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York, USA
- 1908 - 1911
- Career position - Lecturer in mathematics and physics, University of Melbourne
- 1911
- Education - MSc University of Melbourne
- 1911 - 1929
- Career position - Lecturer in electrical engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1916 - 1918
- Military service - Volunterred as an Australian Munitions Worker to the UK
- 1926
- Education - DSc University of Melbourne
- 1930 - 1946
- Career position - Associate Professor in electrical engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1961
- Award - Doctor of Engineering (DEng), honoris causa, University of Melbourne
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Published resources
Edited Books
- Gibbney, H. J.; and Smith, Ann G. eds, A Biographical register 1788-1939 : notes from the name index of the Australian Dictionary of biography. (2 volumes) (Canberra: Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1987), 429 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Brown, E. B., 'Electric tachometers and speedometers', Commonwealth Engineer, 1 (4) (1913), 134-137. Details
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Edward Byam Brown', Uni News, 12 (16) (2003), 4. Details
- Gillespie, Richard, 'Current history: the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Collection', University of Melbourne collections, 24 (2019), 22-30. Details
Resources
- 'Brown, Edward Byam (1880-1966)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1474096. Details
- 'Awarded honorary DEng, 1961', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Brown, Edward Byam - 2448: Summary of particulars requried for Personal File 1916-1918', in Munition Workers and Navvies Despatched to Great Britain, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, ACT, 1918. https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=6448127. Item ID 6448127. Details
- 'Brown, Edward Byam', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001611p.htm. Details
See also
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 3 May 2024
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