Penelope Jane Brown
Penelope Jane Brown | |
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Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | Neutron scattering |
Awards | Michael Faraday Medal |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Cambridge Institut Laue–Langevin |
Penelope Jane Brown is a neutron crystallographer and served as Senior Scientist at the Institut Laue–Langevin until 2012. In 2002 she was the first woman to win the Institute of Physics Michael Faraday Medal.
Early life and education
Brown studied science at the University of Cambridge. She completed Part I of the natural sciences tripos in 1953 and Part II i 1954. Brown remained at Cambridge for her graduate studies, earning a doctoral degree under the supervision of W H Taylor in 1958.[1] Her PhD considered the crystallographic structures of intermetallic compounds.[2] She remained at the Cavendish Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher.
Research and career
Brown completed her first neutron scattering measurements at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1961, where she worked with B. C. Frazer and R. Nathans. She used polarised neutrons to study hematite.[3] In 1965 Brown was made Assistant Director of Research in the Cavendish Laboratory. She attended the Harwell Summer School on neutron scattering in 1968.[4]
She moved to the
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