Brown, Edward Byam (1880 - 1966)

Summary

Edward Brown was associate professor in electrical engineering, University of Melbourne 1930-1946. He was the husband of Vera Scantlebury Brown.

Details

Born Strathdownie, Victoria, 31 July 1880. Died Melbourne, 16 May 1966. Educated University of Melbourne (MSc 1911, DSc 1926) and City & Guilds College, London (ACGI 1905). General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York 1905-07; lecturer in mathematics and physics, University of Melbourne 1908-11; lecturer in electrical engineering 1911-29; associate professor 1930-46.

Chronology

1961

Award - Doctor of Engineering (DEng), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

Published resources

Edited Books

• Gibbney, H. J.; and Smith, Ann G. eds, A Biographical register 1788-1939 : notes from the name index of the Australian Dictionary of biography. (2 volumes) (Canberra: Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1987), 429 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Edward Byam Brown', Uni News, 12 (16) (2003), 4. Details
• Gillespie, Richard, 'Current history: the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Collection', University of Melbourne collections, 24 (2019), 22-30. Details

Resources

• 'Brown, Edward Byam (1880-1966)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1474096. Details
• 'Awarded honorary DEng, 1961', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Brown, Edward Byam', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001611p.htm. Details

See also

• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details