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(Encyclopedia) brown hematite: see limonite.
(Encyclopedia) Almirante Brown, Argentina: see Adrogué.
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(Encyclopedia) brown thrush: see mimic thrush.
(Encyclopedia) Brown Deer, village (2020 pop.
12,507), Milwaukee co., SE Wis., on the Milwaukee River; inc. 1955. It is a
residential suburb N of Milwaukee; consumer g...
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Harold, 1927–2019, American nuclear physicist and government official, b. New York City, Ph.D. Columbia, 1949. He joined (1952) the staff of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now Lawrence Li...
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Michael Stuart, 1941–, American molecular geneticist, b. New York City, M.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1966. He worked (1968–71) as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health before goi...
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Benjamin Gratz, 1826–85, U.S. Senator (1863–67) and governor of Missouri (1871–73), b. Lexington, Ky. An able lawyer in St. Louis, Brown was a leader in the Free-Soil movement in Missouri...
(Encyclopedia) Brown, John, 1800–1859,
American abolitionist, b. Torrington, Conn. He spent his boyhood in Ohio.
Before he became prominent in the 1850s, his life ha...
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Samuel Robbins, 1810–80, American missionary and educator, b. East Windsor, Conn. As a missionary (1839–47) to China, he took charge of a school founded by the Morrison Educational Associat...
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Herbert Charles, 1912–2004, American chemist, b. London, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1938. A professor at Wayne State Univ. (1943–47) and Purdue Univ. (1947–78), he shared the 1979 Nobel Priz...