Lawrence Michael Brown
FRS (born 1936) is a Canadian physicist, known for his pioneering work on the application of
transmission electron microscopy
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a microscopy technique in which a beam of electrons is transmitted through a specimen to form an image. The specimen is most often an ultrathin section less than 100 nm thick or a suspension on a g ...
to metals, diamond,
nuclear
Nuclear may refer to:
Physics
Relating to the nucleus of the atom:
* Nuclear engineering
*Nuclear physics
*Nuclear power
*Nuclear reactor
*Nuclear weapon
*Nuclear medicine
*Radiation therapy
*Nuclear warfare
Mathematics
*Nuclear space
*Nuclear ...
materials and
semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical resistivity and conductivity, electrical conductivity value falling between that of a electrical conductor, conductor, such as copper, and an insulator (electricity), insulator, such as glas ...
s. He has spent much of his career at the
Cavendish Laboratory
The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics and is named ...
, which he joined in 1960. He played an important role in establishing the SuperSTEM facility at
Daresbury Laboratory
Daresbury Laboratory is a scientific research laboratory based at Sci-Tech Daresbury campus near Daresbury in Halton, Cheshire, England. The laboratory began operations in 1962 and was officially opened on 16 June 1967 as the Daresbury Nuclear ...
.
References
External links
Brown's page at the website of the University of CambridgeOfficial website of SuperSTEMProfile of Professor Brown from Microscopy and Analysis magazine November 2021
1936 births
Living people
Canadian physicists
Fellows of Robinson College, Cambridge
Fellows of the Royal Society
Scientists of the Cavendish Laboratory
Microscopists
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