Harold Brown

U.S. Secretary of Defense (1927-2019)

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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

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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.