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DR. G. L. BROWN, who has been appointed to succeed Prof. Lovatt Evans, has been a member of the scientific staff of the Medical Research Council for the last fourteen years. Dr. Brown was a student at the University of Manchester, where he graduated in medicine in 1927, having taken a higher degree in physiology during his course of study. He left Manchester to become demonstrator and later lecturer in physiology under the late Prof. McSwiney at Leeds, where his researches were concerned with the motor innervation of the stomach. When Dr. Brown went to the National Institute for Medical Research in 1934, he joined in the programme of work in Sir Henry Dale's laboratory on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses ; to this work he made major contributions, especially in connexion with the role of acetylcholine in the conduction of impulses through sympathetic ganglia and from motor nerves to skeletal muscle. Since then he has much extended his researches in neurophysiology with full application and development of modern electrical methods; the results of his work are important not only for their scientific interest but also for their clinical applications. During the Second World War, Dr. Brown gave distinguished service, as secretary of the Royal Naval Personnel Research Committee, both by organising and directly stimulating researches on conditions affecting the efficiency of naval personnel. The chair at University College will thus be occupied by a man who has established himself as a leader in physiology, and who will undoubtedly uphold the great traditions of the Laboratory of which he will have charge.
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Dr. G. L. Brown, C.B.E., F.R.S. Nature 163, 315 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163315a0
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