John Martin Brown is a British scientist. Poynting Physics building 2

J. Martin Brown graduated with a BSc degree in

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from

Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

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in 1963. He received an MSc in Radiation

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and physics from

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in 1965. He graduated with a DPhil in Cancer Biology from

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in 1968. Brown is Professor Emeritus of Radiation

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at Stanford University School of Medicine in the

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. He was Director of the Division of Radiation and Cancer Biology at Stanford University from 1984 to 2004. He was Director of the Graduate Program in Cancer Biology at Stanford from 1990 to 2002. Brown heads the J. Martin Brown Lab at Stanford University School of Medicine. J. Martin Brown has received numerous honours and awards. The International Association for Radiation Research gave him the Henry S. Kaplan Distinguished Scientist Award in 2007. The British Association for Radiation Research awarded him the Weiss Medal in 2001. The Radiation Research Society gave him the Failla Memorial Award in 2000. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in 1999. He received the Bruce Cain Memorial Award from the

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in 1999.

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