Lowell S. Brown

Lowell S. Brown
Born	1934
Residence	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	Quantum field theory
Institutions	Yale University University of Washington Los Alamos National Laboratory
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Julian Schwinger
Notable awards	Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, CERN and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1979)

Lowell S. Brown (born 1934) is an American theoretical physicist, a Staff Scientist and Laboratory Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Professor Emeritus of physics at University of Washington. He was a student of Julian Schwinger at Harvard University and a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Brown authored a book on Quantum Field Theory, and he has authored or co-authored over 150 articles that have accumulated almost 10,000 citations.

Lowell S. Brown earned his A.B. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1956 and his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1961, where he studied quantum field theory under Julian Schwinger.

After National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowships at Istituto di Fisica Dell'Universita in Rome and at Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, Brown joined Yale University as an Associate Professor through 1968. For most of his career, Brown served as a Professor at the University of Washington (1969-2001). Then, he was a Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico (2001-2014). Since then, he has been a Guest Scientist at Los Alamos.