Thomas Graham Brown
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| Born | 27 March 1882 Edinburgh |
| Died | 28 October 1965 (aged 83) |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Fields | physiologist |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (1927) |
Thomas Graham Brown FRS (27 March 1882 – 28 October 1965) (usually known as T. Graham Brown) was a Scottish mountaineer and physiologist.
Graham Brown was born in Edinburgh 1882; his father – Dr John Joseph Graham Brown – was a President of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. T. Graham Brown read science and medicine at the University of Edinburgh in the city before moving to Glasgow and then Liverpool. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I; after the war he continued his work on the physiology of the nervous system, particularly reflex movements and posture, and in 1920 he accepted the Chair in Physiology at the University of Wales at Cardiff. In 1927 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
The east or Brenva face of Mont Blanc was the scene of his most famous first ascents, his three new routes – the Sentinelle Rouge, Route Major and the Pear Buttress – constituting "the most important new routes made by British climbers in the Alps in the inter-war years." In an article in the Alpine Journal, Graham Brown wrote
The great Brenva face of Mont Blanc de Courmayeur and Mont Blanc had not been climbed between the line of Güssfeldt's ascent of the Aiguille Blanche de Pétérey and the line of the Brenva route until Smythe and I had the good fortune to discover the 'Sentinel' route in 1927.
He climbed the first of these routes, the Sentinelle Rouge, with Frank Smythe on 1–2 September 1927. Smythe also accompanied him on the first ascent of Route Major on 6–7 August 1928. According to Claire Engel, "both expeditions were among the most notable of the century". The third route – the Pear Buttress – ascended the large rock buttress on the left of the face, and was made by Graham Brown, together with Alexander Graven and Alfred Aufdenblatten, on 5 August 1933.
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