John Wesley Brown, a chemistry prof who studied links betwixt fare and intelligence illness, and a 60-year subordinate of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, died March 21, successful Louisville, Kentucky. He was 96.
John Brown
Brown was calved successful Chicago connected Dec. 2, 1925, the lone kid of Earl Jackson and Myrtle Brown. He enlisted successful the Army and volunteered for combat astatine property 18. He received a Purple Heart for serving connected the beforehand lines successful the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. After his service, Brown attended Elmhurst College connected the GI Bill for a bachelor’s grade successful chemistry. He past earned a master's grade and a Ph.D. successful biochemistry astatine the University of Illinois Medical Center.
Brown joined the University of Louisville Medical School module successful 1957. His agelong vocation astatine the U of L included teaching, processing caller courses, doing research, and serving successful administrative positions. In 1964, helium received the Kentucky State Medical Association Faculty Scientific Achievement Award. He taught assorted chemistry courses until helium was 78.
Courtesy of Suzanne Shepherd
An nonfiction successful a 1978 contented of the University of Louisville Potential focused successful the probe John Brown (left) and John Thurmond did connected links betwixt fare and intelligence illness.
In 1 of Brown’s past large probe projects, helium studied the effect of fare connected behavior, teaming up with module from the pharmacology, physiology, and psychiatry departments of the university’s aesculapian schoolhouse and the science section successful the assemblage of arts and sciences. Six of his 26 technological publications related to this research, which focused connected however definite amino acids commonly recovered successful nutrient impact the encephalon erstwhile they respond with enzymes to nutrient neurotransmitters. Brown and a science professor, John Thurmond, hypothesized that feeding patients precocious concentrations of the amino acids that assistance nutrient serotonin and different neurotransmitters mightiness trim immoderate symptoms of intelligence illness.
The lone taxable Brown taught longer than chemistry was the Bible, according to his obituary; helium was a pupil of Biblical archeology, past Jewish past and the teachings of Jesus. He and his wife, Lois, were progressive members of a Great Books Club for much than 40 years.
In retirement, Brown travelled and continued his life-long hobbies of carpentry and watercolor painting. For years, helium designed and built toys for the Salvation Army to administer astatine Christmas.
Lois Brown died successful 2003. John Brown is survived by his children, Suzanne Shepherd and hubby Don, Janice Brown, and Paul Brown and woman Debbie; 3 grandchildren; and 2 great-grandchildren.
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