Harold Brown
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- Strategic forces and deterrence
- From One Room in the Chicken Coop to Ten Offices on the West Coast
- Rubber
- Beta-spectra of gaseous A41 and O15
- New Evidences of Christ in Ancient America
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Harold Brown - violist, composer, teacher, choral director - was born October 31, 1909 in New York City to Rose and Sam Brown (originally Braunstein). While at Columbia College (1925-29). He was the founder of the Renaissance Chorus of New York, the first Renaissance Chorus in America. Harold's musical abilities were recognized and acknowledged by faculty members who referred him to summer resort orchestral jobs as violinist/violist. By the age of twenty <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Harold
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,393x
- Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0
· 2007 · cited 24,980x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,568x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,860x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,613x
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Key facts
- President
- Jimmy Carter
- Preceded by
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Succeeded by
- Caspar Weinberger
- Born
- ( 1927-09-19 ) September 19, 1927, New York City , U.S.
- Died
- January 4, 2019 (2019-01-04) (aged 91), Rancho Santa Fe, California , U.S.
- Party
- Democratic
- Spouse
- Colene Dunning McDowell ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1953 )
- Education
- Columbia University ( BS , MS , PhD )
- Fields
- Nuclear physics , Atomic physics
- Institutions
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , California Institute of Technology
- Thesis
- Beta-spectra of gaseous argon-41 and oxygen-15 (1951)
- Doctoral advisor
- Isidor Isaac Rabi
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Encyclopedic overview
Harold Brown (September 19, 1927 – January 4, 2019) was an American nuclear physicist who served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981, under President Jimmy Carter. Previously, in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations, he held the posts of Director of Defense Research and Engineering (1961–1965) and United States Secretary of the Air Force (1965–1969).
A child prodigy, Brown graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at age 15, and earned a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University at age 21. As Secretary of Defense, he set the groundwork for the Camp David Accords, took part in strategic arms negotiations with the Soviet Union, and supported, unsuccessfully, ratification of the SALT II treaty.
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