Brown, Timothy, 2004-08-24

Oral history interview with Timothy Brown, 2004. Interviewed by Patrice Pazar. 1 sound cassette (ca. 1 hr.) : analog, mono . UCAR/NCAR 92; two physical versions (one master, one copy). Transcript (9 pgs., incomplete). Forms part of the UCAR/NCAR Oral History Collection. Description for Side A: Timothy Brown reminisces about his early fascination with astronomy, building telescopes and an observatory as a child with his father. Brown talks about his undergraduate school experience at Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts school in Middletown, Connecticut, and his work with the physicists on campus, specifically his mentor Jim Faller. Brown did his graduate studies at the University of Colorado, but completed most of his work in Tucson, working for a professor from the University of Arizona as an HAO (High Altitude Observatory) graduate student. The title of Brown’s thesis was “Observational Investigation of the Pulsations of the Apparent Solar Diameter”. After graduate school Brown worked at the Sacramento Peak Observatory working on high resolution imaging techniques, then on the Fourier Tachometer at HAO, and then he moved to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.