Michigan State University in 1956. Since before, he is based a l of the server of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he comes still Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus. He was as Vice Chancellor for Research, and Dean, The Graduate College, from 1980 to 1986, and as Founding Director of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology from 1987 to 1993. Professor Brown comes been an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow and tackles used played a Guggenheim Fellowship.