Brown, Gavin (1942-2010)

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Brown, G. (Gavin) (1942-2010)
Brown, Gavin (1942-)
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Mathematician and Science administrator
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Gavin Brown is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney. He is an executive board member of the Australian government's Business, Industry and Higher Education Round Table and was the inaugural Chairman of the Group of Eight, comprising Australia's leading research universities. He is a former Vice-President of the Australian Academy of Science, and a former Council member of the Australian Research Council.

  • 1963 Education - Master of Arts (MA) completed at University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • 1966 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
  • 1966 Career position - Junior Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 1966 - 1975 Career position - Assistant Lecturer then Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK
  • 1967 - 1968 Career position - Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, USA
  • 1974 - 1975 Career position - Visiting Lecturer at the University of Washington, USA
  • 1975 - 1992 Career position - Chair of Pure Mathematics at the University of New South Wales
  • 1977 Award - Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize received from the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
  • 1979 Career position - Visiting Professor at the University of York, UK
  • 1981 - Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
  • 1982 Award - Australian Mathematical Society Medal received
  • 1986 Career position - Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, UK
  • 1989 - 1992 Career position - Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales
  • 1992 - 1993 Career position - Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Adelaide
  • 1992 - 1993 Career position - Member of the Australian Research Council
  • 1993 - 1994 Career position - Vice-President of the Australian Academy of Science
  • 1994 - 1996 Career position - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide

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  1. On G-measures and product measures / by G. Brown and A.H. Dooley
    Brown, Gavin, 1942-2010
    [ Article : 1996 ]
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2011-01-14 13:57:46.0

The Australian, 12 January 2011, p.22
"Canny Scot invigorated Sydney Uni."
"In 1996 he was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney, at a time when it was decline. He guided the university over 12 years from a very low ranking on international scales to a significant position once more, and from a low to a top ranking among Australia's Group of 8 leading universities. he oversaw a sixfold increase in research income, a far greater increase than that of any other sandstone university, and was responsible for the largest capital works program at any university. "
"Brown had gravitas, but it was leavened with a wonderful Scottish sense of humour. He had a first-rate analytical mind. This is evident in his appointment to the chair of pure mathematics at 34, the Australian Mathematical Society Medal he was awarded at 40 and his election to the Australian Academy of Science at 39. The last of his more than 135 papers, principally in the areas of algebraic geometry, measure theory and harmonic analysis, was published last year on the subject Symmetric cantor Measure, Coin-Tossing and Sum Sets."
"It was an inspiration to scholars in the universities he led to know that he was engaged in research, with his own ARC grants and PhD students - and also to know, as one dean of science recently remarked, that he was probably the cleverest person on campus. Brown had an uncanny ability to back unconventional people and projects that became successful..."
"Brown was a great university man who could not have achieved what he did without the loving support of his first wife, Barbara, whose tragic death in 2001 nearly felled him, and from his second wife Diane. he is survived by Diane, his children Janet and Colin, and stepchildren Benjamin and Oliver."

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