Person
Brown, Roger Frederick Challis (1931 - 2013)
- Born
- 30 June 1931
Australia - Died
- 1 September 2013
Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Chemist
Summary
Roger Brown, MSc PhD DSc FRACI, was a leading part of the Department of Chemistry at Monash University for over thirty years. His areas of specialty included mechanisms of reactions, organic chemical synthesis and organic chemistry NCE.
He was a great-grandson of the Reverend George Brown (1835-1917).
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Chronology
- 1953
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney
- 1954
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Sydney
- 1955 - 1958
- Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship [Organic Chemistry. - Synthetic studies in the Vitamin B12 series. University of Cambridge]
- 1957 - 1958
- Career position - Research Fellow, Christ's College, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1958
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Cambridge
- 1958 - 1959
- Career position - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
- 1959 - 1961
- Research Fellow, Christ's College, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1961 - 1968
- Career position - Lecturer then Senior Lecturer, School of General Studies, Australian National University, Canberra
- 1965
- Career event - Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI)
- 1968 - 1992
- Career position - Reader in Chemistry, Monash University, Victoria
- 1982
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Sydney
- 1991 - c. 2002
- Career position - Professor of Chemistry, Monash University, Victoria
- c. 2002 -
- Career position - Emeritus Professor, Monash University, Victoria
Related entries
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Roger Frederick Challis Brown - Records, 1955 - 1974; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Books
- Brown, Roger F.C., Chemobiography (Melbourne: Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 2001), 137 pp. Details
- Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Record of the science research scholars of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, 1891 - 1960 (London: The Commissioners, 1961), 107 pp. Overseas Scholarship - Entry No.242. Details
Journal Articles
- Eastwood, Frank, 'Roger Brown, a Life in Synthesis and Pyrolysis', Chemistry in Australia, 81 (1) (2014), 27. Details
Resources
- 'Brown, Roger F C (1931-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-640824. Details
Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 8 October 2026
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