Austin Moore Brues (April 25, 1906 – February 27, 1991) was an American pioneer of radiation biology.

Austin Moore Brues was born April 25, 1906, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School in Boston, Massachusetts.

[3][1] From 1944 to 1946 Brues was senior biologist at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, part of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb.

[1][4] In 1945 he signed the Szilárd petition, calling on President Truman to make public the full terms of Japan's surrender before dropping the atomic bomb.

[5] Brues died February 27, 1991, at his home in Hinsdale, Illinois, from Alzheimer's disease.