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Gavin Brown: 1942–2010

Anthony H. Dooley https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2656-3042 A *
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A School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia.

* Correspondence to: anthony.dooley@uts.edu.au

Historical Records of Australian Science https://doi.org/10.1071/HR23024
Published online: 21 June 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Australian Academy of Science. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Abstract

Gavin Brown was a distinguished mathematician, born and educated in Scotland. He moved to Australia in 1975 and was a key contributor to the area of harmonic analysis at the University of New South Wales. Gavin’s career saw him become vice-chancellor of both the University of Adelaide and the University of Sydney, before he became the founding president of the Royal Institution of Australia. When Brown died in Adelaide on Christmas Day 2010, we lost a distinguished academic and research mathematician, a huge contributor to Australian education and society and a generous human being with a wonderful sense of humour.

Keywords: Gavin Brown, harmonic analysis, measure algebras, Royal Institution, vice-chancellor Sydney University.

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