Talk:Patrick O. Brown

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I nominated it for WP:SPEEDY, but now I am reconsidering based on a note from the author:

As the article states he is a member of the US National Academy of Science, i.e. considered to one of the 2000 most distinguished living scientists. (User:Kjaergaard )

I also saw on the Takeda Awards page that he received an award for development of dna microarrays. These seem to be indications of notability (although I didn't understand them to be such upon first reading -- ignorance on my part). I'm going to rewrite to include those assertions of notability now if I can source them... Deltopia 17:04, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merger proposal

The articles Patrick O. Brown and Patrick Brown (biochemist) seem to be about the same person, and should be merged. The only question is, which is the better title for the article? For example, does he use his middle initial in publications? --Nicknack009 (talk) 19:13, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

The non-broken links all name him as either Pat Brown or Patrick O. Brown, and no-one has objected to the merger proposal, so I've merged the two articles here. --Nicknack009 (talk) 12:27, 11 May 2008 (UTC)