William Fuller Brown Jr.
William Fuller Brown Jr. | |
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Born | 3M Company, University of Minnesota | September 21, 1904
Thesis | The variation of the internal friction and elastic constants with magnetization in iron (1937) |
Doctoral advisor | Shirley Leon Quimby |
William Fuller Brown Jr. (21 September 1904 – 12 December 1983) was an American physicist who developed the theory of micromagnetics, a continuum theory of ferromagnetism that has had numerous applications in physics and engineering. He published three books: Magnetostatic Principles in Ferromagnetism,[1] Micromagnetics,[2] and Magnetoelastic Interactions.[3]
Biography
William Fuller Brown Jr. was born in Lyon Mountain, New York on September 21, 1904 to William Fuller Brown and Mary Emily Williams, daughter of Hon. Andrew Williams.[4][5][6] An early interest in electromagnetism was stimulated by a toy motor but "destimulated" by high school and college physics courses.[7] He graduated from Cornell University with a BA in English in 1925 and began teaching at Carolina Academy, a private high school in Raleigh, North Carolina. Teaching general science "restimulated" his interest in physics.[7]
In 1927, Brown enrolled in
In 1938 Brown was appointed assistant professor of physics at
From 1946 to 1955, Brown worked in Newton Square,
In 1957 Brown became a professor of
Development of micromagnetics
At the time of Brown's graduation from Cornell, the theory for
Brown published his equations in 1940 and applied them to the approach to saturation of magnetization curves.[11] He later said that "nobody paid any attention to them for 16 years",[7] although Charles Kittel said that it was one of the "starting points" for his review of ferromagnetism in 1946.[12]
Honors
In 1967, Brown received an A. Cressy Morrison Award from the
Works
Books
- Brown, William Fuller Jr. (1962). Magnetostatic Principles in Ferromagnetism. North-Holland.
- — (1962). Micromagnetics. ISBN 978-0-88275-665-3.
- — (1966). Magnetoelastic Interactions. Springer-Verlag.
Articles
- Brown, William Fuller Jr. (1940). "Theory of the approach to magnetic saturation". .
- — (1941). "The Effect of Dislocations on Magnetization Near Saturation". Physical Review. 60 (2): 139–147. .
- — (1945). "Virtues and Weaknesses of the Domain Concept". Reviews of Modern Physics. 17 (1): 15–19. .
- — (1957). "Criterion for Uniform Micromagnetization". Physical Review. 105 (5): 1479–1482. .
- — (1963). "Thermal Fluctuations of a Single-Domain Particle". Physical Review. 130 (5): 1677–1686. .
Notes
- ^ Brown 1962a
- ^ Brown 1962b
- ^ Brown 1966
- ^ Yale & Decennial
- ^ Anderson, Bart (1966). The Sharples--Sharpless Family. West Chester, PA. pp. 2:592.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b c d e f Rubens 1979
- ^ a b c d Brown 1972
- ^ UMN 2003
- ^ Becker & Döring 1939
- ^ Brown 1978
- ^ Brown 1940
- ^ Kittel 1946
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive".
See also
References
- Becker, R.; Döring, W. (1939). Ferromagnetismus. Springer.
- Books, I. (2002). "Bibliography of William Fuller Brown, Jr". .
- Brown, William Fuller Jr. (1972). "Magnetic memories, melodies and mazes". S2CID 7580982.
- Brown, William Fuller Jr. (1978). "Domains, micromagnetics, and beyond: reminiscences and assessments". doi:10.1063/1.324811.
- Kittel, Charles (1946). "Theory of the structure of ferromagnetic domains in films and small particles". hdl:1721.1/5030.
- Kronmüller, Helmut; Fähnle, Manfred (2003). Micromagnetism and the microstructure of ferromagnetic solids. Cambridge: Cambridge university press. pp. 5–6. ISBN 9780521331357.
- Rubens, Sidney M. (1979). "William Fuller Brown, Jr". .
- "Countee Cullen Correspondence, 1918–1939". University of Minnesota. 2003. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
- "Decennial record of the class of 1896, Yale College". Yale University. Retrieved 2023-10-05.