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| | Gordon Brown, pioneer electrical engineer, educator at MIT, dies at 88 - MIT News Office |
 | | Brown was born in 1907 in Australia and, at the age of 18, graduated from what was then known as Workingman's College, now the Royal Melbourne Technical College, with three diplomas--in mechanical, electrical and civil engineering. |
 | | Brown continued as dean of engineering until 1968 when he became the first holder of the Dugald Caleb Jackson Professorship, named for the man who was head of the MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering when Dr. Brown arrived as an undergraduate. |
 | | Brown was the author of more than 50 technical and professional papers and the co-author, with the late Donald P. Campbell, of Principles of Servomechanisms, published in 1948 and still a standard reference in the field. |
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