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Bob Brown
Robert James Brown is an Australian former politician, medical doctor and environmentalist. He was a senator and the parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens. Brown was elected to the Australian Senate on the Tasmanian Greens ticket, joining with sitting Greens Western Australia senator Dee Margetts to form the first group of Australian Greens senators following the 1996 federal election. He…
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science · Australian politician (born 1944) · politician · physician · environmentalist · also Bob Brown, Robert James Brown, Brown
Born 27 December 1944 · Q24598
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2026· 2 entries
“But it was Harold’s picture that laid out such a record of that crucial period – not just of the Franklin, but of the environmental and social history of Australia.”
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2022· 1 entry
Published “LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales” in Computer Physics Communications — cited 11,920 times.
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2019· 2 entries
ABC News rated the claim “"Labor's proposal is to dismantle offshore detention [and will] essentially give the ability for two doctors — as has been pointed out, doctors including Dr Brown, Bob Brown, and Dr Richard Di Natale — potentially can provide the advice."” Drawing a long bow.
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Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,127 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,763 times.
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2012· 1 entry
With South Australian climate activist Daniel Spencer the recipient of the inaugural Young Environmentalist of the Year award, and Tasmanian forest activist Jenny Weber was inaugural Environmentalist of the Year, which
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2011· 2 entries
Brown supported the 2011 military intervention in Libya
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After the 2010–11 Queensland floods Brown drew criticism for suggesting that half the Mineral Resource Rent Tax be allocated to future natural catastrophes
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2009· 1 entry
Brennan, who was released in November 2009, also stated in this interview that Brown had to borrow this money, an assertion also made in various media outlets at the time of Brennan's release.
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2008· 1 entry
Published “Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)” in Genome Biology — cited 17,969 times.
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2007· 1 entry
Published “Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0” in Bioinformatics — cited 25,016 times.
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2005· 1 entry
Brown brought a legal case against Forestry Tasmania in the Federal Court, in an attempt to protect Tasmania's Wielangta forest from clearfell logging
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2004· 2 entries
James Norman published the first authorised biography of Brown, entitled Bob Brown: A Gentle Revolutionary
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Stating that "Mr Howard should relax and accept gay marriages as part of the future's social fabric"
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,648 times.
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2000· 1 entry
Published “Molecular portraits of human breast tumours” in Nature — cited 12,762 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Published “Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patterns” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 12,445 times.
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1996· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the Australian Senate (1996–2012).
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And was an outspoken voice in opposition to the conservative government of John Howard, and in support of green and human rights issues, including international issues such as Tibet, East Timor and West Papua
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“World's Most Inspiring Politician”
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1993· 1 entry
Brown resigned from the House of Assembly and stood unsuccessfully for the federal House of Representatives
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1992· 1 entry
Until April 2012, a period in which polls grew to around 10% at state and federal levels (13
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1990· 3 entries
Awarded Goldman Environmental Prize (1990).
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Of the Australian Bush Heritage Fund, now Bush Heritage Australia, a non-profit environmental organisation dedicated to purchasing and preserving Australian bushland
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Published “Light-emitting diodes based on conjugated polymers” in Nature — cited 10,500 times.
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1989· 1 entry
Tasmania's system of proportional representation allowed the Greens to win five out of 35 seats in the Tasmanian House of Assembly and Brown became their leader
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1988· 1 entry
Published “An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties.” in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology — cited 11,456 times.
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1983· 3 entries
Brown was the subject of an Archibald Prize-finalist painting in psychedelic style by Harold "the Kangaroo" Thornton, titled Dr Brown and Green Old Time Waltz
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Career landmark: Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1983–1993).
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Became a member of Tasmania's parliament for the House of Assembly seat of Denison after the Democrats MP Norm Sanders resigned to successfully stand for the Australian Senate; Brown was elected to replace him on a co
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1978· 1 entry
Brown was appointed director of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society
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1976· 3 entries
Fasted for a week on top of Mt Wellington in protest against the arrival at Hobart of the nuclear-powered warship USS Enterprise
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In a newspaper interview in 1976, Brown announced that he had a same-sex partner to highlight discrimination and encourage law reform because homosexual activity in Tasmania remained a crime until 1997.
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Brown announced that he had a same-sex partner to highlight discrimination and encourage law reform because homosexual activity in Tasmania remained a crime until 1997
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1972· 1 entry
And worked as a general practitioner in Launceston
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1970· 1 entry
And worked at Hounslow Cottage Hospital and St Mary Abbots Hospital in South Kensington
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-12-27.
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