Theodore L. Brown
| Theodore L. Brown | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 15, 1928 Green Bay, Wisconsin |
| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Organic chemistry |
| Institutions | Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Alma mater | Michigan State University, Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Spouse | Audrey Catherine Brockman |
Theodore Lawrence Brown (born October 15, 1928) is an American scientist "of the first-rank" known for research, teaching, and writing in the field of organic chemistry, a university administrator, and a philosopher of science. In addition to his research publications, Brown has written textbooks on inorganic chemistry and science communication which have been published in multiple languages and used in multiple countries. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has also held the administrative positions of Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate College (1980-1986). He is the Founding Director Emeritus of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
Theodore L. Brown was born October 15, 1928, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Lawrence A. Brown and Martha E. (Kedinger) Brown. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1950. From 1950 to 1953, he served with the U.S. Navy. On January 6, 1951, he married Audrey Catherine Brockman.
Brown then attended Michigan State University, where he worked with Max T. Rogers. He was a Du Pont Teaching Fellow, 1955-1956. He received his Ph.D. in 1956. His thesis, I. Solution Structures of Lithium Alkyl Compounds. II. Infrared Intensities of the OH Stretching Bond in Alcohols, identified two of the research areas that he would focus on during his career.
He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he became an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in 1958, an Associate Professor in 1961, and a Professor in 1965. His textbook Chemistry: The Central Science has been published in at least twelve editions. Between 1958 and 1993, when he retired from teaching, Brown supervised 61 Ph.D. and 28 postdoctoral students. As of 1994 he became professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Illinois.
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