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.

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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 - 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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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

  • 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

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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.

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