Theodore Lawrence Brown (born October 15, 1928) is an American scientist known for research, teaching, and writing in the field of physical inorganic chemistry, a university administrator, and a philosopher of science.
He is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has also held the administrative positions of vice chancellor for research and dean of the graduate college (1980–1986).
Theodore L. Brown was born October 15, 1928, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Lawrence A.
[2][4] Brown then attended Michigan State University,[5] where he worked with Max T. Rogers.
Infrared Intensities of the OH Stretching Bond in Alcohols, identified two research areas that he would focus on early in his career.
[7] His textbook Chemistry: The Central Science, initially coauthored with H. E. LeMay, has been published in fourteen editions.
[5] He is the founding director emeritus of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which he headed from 1987 to 1993.