William Rowan Browne

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William Rowan Browne (11 December 1884 – 1 September 1975) Australian geologist.

Browne was born in Lislea, County Londonderry, Ireland, but travelled to Australia in 1904 due to his tuberculosis. He worked as a tutor then enrolled at the University of Sydney, achieving D.Sc. with university medal in 1922 for his work in igneous and metamorphic petrology.

Browne completed The Geology of the Commonwealth of Australia, started by Professor Edgeworth David which was finally printed in 1950. He was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1942. He was a founder, in 1952, of the Geological Society of Australia of which he was president 1955-56; the society awards the W. R. Browne medal as its highest honour.

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• T. G. Vallance, 'Browne, William Rowan (1884 - 1975)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, MUP, 1993, pp 280-282