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INTRODUCTION
0% HAROLD BROW N
SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE
It is now my pleasure to introduce a man who has been gathering
honors since he was a boy. The Secretary of the Air Force is
acknowledged as one of the Nation's outstanding Physicists as
well as a brilliant Administrator.
When an assistant of mine heard he would attend these meetings,
he gave me a first-hand account of achievements not found in an
ofcial biography. At high school, this man was privileged to
take special classes with Dr. Brown, who was really in a class
by himself. Not merely an exceptional student. Dr. Brown was
one of those extraordinary, "once in a lifetime" scholars.
A graduate of high school at fifteen. Dr. Brown needed only three
years to earn his BA at C olurnbia University, Where he received
a Masters Degree a year later, and a PHD in Physics in 1949. at
the age of twenty-two. He later lectured in Physics at Columbia
and the Stevens Institute of Technology. In 1952 he was appointed
to the staff of the newly established Livermore Radiation
IAboratory in California where his research centered on nuclear
energy. By 1960 he was Director of the Laboratory.
Dr. Brown served the U. S. Government in a number of Advisory
posts before he was named Director of Defense Research and
Engineering in 1961, the position he held when President Johnson
named him Secretary of the Air Force on October 1, 1965, at the
age of 38.
He has received several honorary degrees, is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, and in 1961 was named one of the Ten Outstanding
Young Men in America. I give you the distinguished Secretary of
the Air Force. the Honorable Harold Brown.
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