Michael A. Brown,

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, DL,

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, FIET,

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, (born 19 May 1946) was the 2nd

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between 2000 and 2011.

Education

He attended Bridgend Grammar School for Boys. In 1971, he obtained his PhD at the

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with a thesis entitled ''Investigation of Phonon Scattering and Cross-relaxation by Paramagnetic Ions Using Thermal Conductivity Techniques.''

100th Roscoe Lecture

In May 2011, Michael Brown delivered the 100th lecture of the

Roscoe Lectures at the

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, as named after by

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References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20080510182919/http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ada/93783.htm Welcome/A message from Vice-Chancellor Michael Brown * https://web.archive.org/web/20090218234301/http://ljmu.ac.uk/Governors/64915.htm#Professor%20Michael%20Brown {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Michael 1946 births Living people 21st-century British physicists 20th-century British physicists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Deputy lieutenants of Merseyside Fellows of the Institute of Physics People educated at Ysgol Brynteg People from Hereford Vice-chancellors of Liverpool John Moores University Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts