“Most satisfying of all is that for four years our nation remained at peace despite the world tensions and turmoil that constantly pose challenges to our interest and peace.”
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Harold Brown
Harold Brown was an American nuclear physicist who served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981, under President Jimmy Carter. Previously, in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations, he held the posts of Director of Defense Research and Engineering (1961–1965) and United States Secretary of the Air Force (1965–1969).
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science · American nuclear physicist and U.S. Secretary of Defense · physicist · politician · also Harold Brown, Harold Brown (secretary of defense), Brown
Born 19 September 1927 · Died 4 January 2019 · Q552916
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2026· 6 entries
“the Defense Department budget in real terms was 10 to 12 percent more when we left than when we came in,”
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“Nothing in the policy contemplates that nuclear war can be a deliberate instrument of achieving our national security goals. ... But we cannot afford the risk that the Soviet leadership might entertain the illusion that nuclear war could be an option – or its threat a means of coercion – for them.”
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Chicago Tribune: Review: Chris Brown and Usher prove they’re still the masters of R&B
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TradingView: United Fire Group appoints Teresa J. Brown as Class C director
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NBC Connecticut: ‘Black and Brown' beach party moved from Old Lyme after concerns raised over noise
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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 11,907 times.
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2019· 2 entries
Died 2019-01-04.
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Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,123 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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2008· 1 entry
Published “Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)” in Genome Biology — cited 17,966 times.
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2007· 1 entry
Published “Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0” in Bioinformatics — cited 25,017 times.
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2006· 1 entry
Participated in a meeting at the White House of former Secretaries of Defense and State to discuss United States foreign policy with Bush administration officials
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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 12,761 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 12,444 times.
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Enrico Fermi Award (1992).
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1983· 1 entry
Published "Thinking About National Security: Defense and Foreign Policy in a Dangerous World"/ In later years, Brown was affiliated with research organizations and served on the boards of a number of corporations, like A
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1981· 5 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Jimmy Carter (1981).
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Following President Carter's unsuccessful bid for re-election
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Could President Carter make final arrangements for the release of the hostages
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And the Enrico Fermi Award from President Bill Clinton in 1993
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Brown said that failure to secure ratification of SALT II was his greatest regret
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1979· 1 entry
The United States formally recognized the PRC almost 30 years after its establishment
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1978· 1 entry
And 1979, and increases in 1980 and 1981
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1977· 3 entries
To increase their individual defense spending three percent per year in real terms for the 1979-86 period
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The military services, most of all the army, were disrupted badly by the Vietnam War
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of Defense (1977–1981).
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1969· 1 entry
Career landmark: director of the California Institute of Technology (1969–1977).
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1965· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States Secretary of the Air Force (1965–1969).
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1952· 1 entry
Joined the staff of the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Livermore and became its director in 1960, succeeding Edward Teller, of whom he was a protégé
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1927· 1 entry
Born 1927-09-19.
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1903· 1 entry
And granted the United States a concession "in perpetuity"
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