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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.
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-
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:
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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CBC Consulting (formerly Charlie Browne Company) is directed by Dr. Charles Browne, Professor of Applied Linguistics, specialist in online language learning, vocabulary acquisition and corpus-linguistics, and a well-known author and international public speaker.
Charles Albert Browne was an American chemist, science writer and food technologist dealing primarily with sugar. Collection consists of Browne's journals, writings, correspondence, and photographs.
