John C. Browne

Who is John C. Browne?

John C. Browne is an American physicist.

He was born on July 29, 1942 in Pottstown, PA as the fifth child of Charles I. and Mary Agnes Browne. He received a B.S. in Physics from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pa. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University in Durham, NC. His thesis was titled "Fine Structure of Analog States in 61,63,65-Cu."

After teaching at Duke University, he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California where he did research in basic and applied nuclear physics at a 100-MeV electron linac, including studies into nuclear fission and nuclear astrpophysics.

He joined Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1979 as head of Group P-3, the neutron physics group in the LANL Physics division, helping to start a new research effort in weak interaction physics. He became Physics Division Leader in 1981, succeeding George A. Keyworth, who became President Ronald Reagan's science advisor. In 1984, he was appointed Associate Director for Experimental Physics by Lab Director Donald Kerr. When Siegfried Hecker became Lab Director in 1986, he appointed Browne to a series of posts.