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Charles Albert Browne Jr. (August 12, 1870 – February 3, 1947) was a sugar chemist and former head of the Bureau of Chemistry, which later became the Food and Drug Administration. He is also considered a leader in the study of the history of chemistry in North America.
Dr. Charles Albert Browne, born in North Adams, Massachusetts on August 12, 1870, was an eminent agricultural chemist with an international reputation for his work on sugar.
In this talk, he addresses the perennial problem of how English vocabulary is taught in Japan and introduces a concrete solution in the form of a corpus-derived list of high frequency words...
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2 Charles Albert Browne (1870-1947) 3 The Historian of the American Chemical Society 4 5 Of all the members and officers of HIST, Charles Browne is the one who had the 6 largest impact on the documentation of the history of the American Chemical 7 Society. He was the author of A History of the American Chemical Society:
Charles Albert Browne (1870–1947) HIST Chair, 1922–1923 Cofounder of HIST (with Edgar Fahs Smith), Browne studied at Williams College (B.A. and M.A.) and later earned his Ph.D. under Bernard Tollens at Göttingen in 1902. The sugar research begun in Germany remained the principal scien-tific focus for the rest of his career. After posi-
Charles Albert Browne, Junior. was born in North Adams, Master of Arts on August 12, 1870, the eldest of five children. His father, Charles Albert Browne, Senior was an inventor and held several patents dealing with explosive technologies including electric fuses.
Robert Charles Browne (born October 31, 1952) is an American murderer who is currently serving two life sentences for the murders of two teenage girls in Colorado Springs, Colorado, committed in 1987 and 1991, respectively.
