Virginia Ruth Brown (March 11, 1934 – February 8, 2016) was an American nuclear physicist known for her contributions on the structure, interaction, reactions, and bremsstrahlung of nucleons and atomic nuclei.
[1][2] Brown was born on March 11, 1934, in Massachusetts,[1][2] and earned a bachelor's degree at Northeastern University.
[3] She became a graduate student at McGill University, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1964 under the supervision of Bernard Margolis.
[5] This 1973 calculation was eventually confirmed by experiment in 2013, demonstrating the importance of pion exchange between the neutron and proton.
[7] In 2003, she became the inaugural winner of the division's Distinguished Service Award, "for substantial and extensive contributions to the nuclear physics community ..., and for her role in bringing to fruition the historic first joint meeting of the nuclear physicists of the American and Japanese Physical Societies".