William Rowan Browne

For other people named William Browne, see William Browne (disambiguation).

William Rowan Browne FAA (11 December 1884 – 1 September 1975) was an Australian geologist, author of The Geology of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Early life

Browne was born in Lislea, County Londonderry, Ireland; both parents were school teachers. He was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution and entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1903, but soon had to withdraw due to tuberculosis. On advice he took a long sea voyage and travelled to Australia in 1904.

Career

Browne tutored before enrolling at the University of Sydney. He earned a D.Sc. with university medal in 1922 for his work in igneous and metamorphic petrology. In 1923 he was promoted to assistant professor.

Browne completed The Geology of the Commonwealth of Australia, started by Professor Edgeworth David. David informed Browne of this in March 1934; David died 28 August 1934. The New South Wales government commissioned Browne to publish the work. David's manuscript was only a bundle of rough notes; some chapters were practically empty. Geology was finally printed in 1950.

The Sydney Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board invited Browne to investigate a site for a storage reservoir on the Warragamba River. Browne found a better site and continued as geological adviser until 1960 when the Warragamba Dam was completed.

Personal life

He was married to Olga Marian Pauss (born 1891), a daughter of the Norwegian consul Olav Eduard Pauss. They had two daughters. Olga died in 1948. In 1950 he married Dr Ida Alison Brown, a colleague and geologist who was required to resign her position as senior lecturer upon marriage.[1][2] Browne died in 1975, having nursed his wife through a debilitating illness for five years. She survived him by a few months.

Honours and legacy

Browne was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales (of which he was president 1932–33) in 1942. Browne was a founder of the Geographical Society of New South Wales in 1927, president 1929–30 and 1948–49. He was also a founder, in 1952, of the Geological Society of Australia, of which he was president 1955–56. The society awards the W. R. Browne Medal as its highest honour.

References

  1. ^ Vallance, T. G. "Browne, William Rowan (1884–1975)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. First publisherd in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, MUP, 1993, pp 280–282.
  2. ^ Branagan, David (1977). "Ida Alison Browne". Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 177: 75–76. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  • T.G. Vallance; E.S. Hills. "William Rowan Browne 1884-1975". Biographical Memoirs of Deceased Fellows. Australian Academy of Science. Originally published in Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 4, no. 1, Canberra, Australia, 1978.
Awards
Preceded by Clarke Medal
1942 		Succeeded by

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