Harrison Brown

Harrison Scott Brown was an American physicist, chemist, and earth scientist born in Sheridan in 1917. He worked in the field of nuclear chemistry and was a participant in the Manhattan Project. Brown was employed by the University of Chicago and was educated at Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Berkeley. He died in Albuquerque in 1986.

Brown received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He was also recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

His notable works include *The Next Hundred Years*, *Must Destruction Be Our Destiny?*, *Requisites for Survival*, *A Bibliography on Meteorites*, and *The Challenge of Man's Future*. Brown’s doctoral student was Clair Cameron Patterson. He spoke English.