Person
Brown, Gavin (1942 - 2010)
AO FAA
- Born
- 27 February 1942
Lundin Links, Fife, Scotland - Died
- 25 December 2010
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Mathematician, University Administrator, Vice-Chancellor and Science administrator
Summary
Gavin Brown was an innovative university administrator, being Vice-Chancellor of the Universities of Adelaide and Sydney, and the inaugural Chairman of the Group of Eight of Australia's leading research universities. As a Member of Council of the Australian Research Council and executive Board Member of the Australian government's Business, Industry and Higher Education Round Table he played a leading role in research policy and funding. He was Vice-President of the Australian Academy of Science from 1993 to 1994. Brown was widely recognised for his research in mathematics which ranged widely over harmonic analysis, measure theory, and algebraic geometry. The Gavin Brown Prize, established in 2011, is awarded by the Australian Mathematical Society for outstanding and innovative research in the mathematical sciences published by a member of the Society.
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Chronology
- 1963
- Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of St Andrews, Scotland
- 1966
- Career position - Junior Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1966
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
- 1966 - 1975
- Career position - Assistant Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer), University of Liverpool, UK
- 1967 - 1968
- Career position - Visiting Associate Professor, University of Illinois, USA
- 1974 - 1975
- Career position - Visiting Lecturer, University of Washington, USA
- 1975 - 1992
- Career position - Chair of Pure Mathematics, University of New South Wales
- 1977
- Award - Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize, Edinburgh Mathematical Society
- 1979
- Career position - Visiting Professor, University of York, UK
- 1981 - 2010
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1982
- Award - Australian Mathematical Society Medal
- 1986
- Career position - Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1989 - 1992
- Career position - Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales
- 1992 - 1993
- Career position - Member of the Australian Research Council
- 1992 - 1993
- Career position - Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Adelaide
- 1993 - 1994
- Career position - Vice-President of the Australian Academy of Science
- 1994 - 1996
- Career position - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide
- 1996 - 2008
- Career position - Vice-Chancellor, University of Sydney
- 1997
- Award - LLD honoris causa, University of St Andrews, Scotland
- 2004
- Award - LLD honoris causa, University of Dundee, Scotland
- 2006 - 2010
- Award - Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 26 January 2006
- Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to tertiary education in Australia and internationally as an advocate for excellence and through the establishment of strategic links with overseas institutions, and to mathematical research
- 2007
- Award - Royal Society of New South Wales Medal
- 2007 - 2010
- Award - Corresponding Member, Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2008 - 2010
- Career position - Inaugural Director, Royal Institution of Australia
Related entries
Published resources
Book Sections
- Brown, Gavin, 'McCallum, Norman Elliott White (1915-1976), Forensic Scientist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), p. 163. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150200b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Anon, 'Biographical Memoir: Gavin Brown AO MA (StAnd) PhD (Newcastle, UK) HonLLD (StAnd & Dundee) FAA Corr FRSE FRSN 1942-2010', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 144 (2011), 46-7. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5528082. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/91786166. Details
- The Australian Mathematical Society Medal, 2024. https://austms.org.au/awards-grants/awards/the-australian-mathematical-society-medal/. Details
- 'Brown, Gavin (19420227-20081225)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-867327. Details
See also
- Who's who in Australia 2012 (Melbourne: Crown Content Pty Ltd, 2012), 2430 pp. Details
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Created: 14 September 2005, Last modified: 15 June 2022