Jim Brown came to Wabash in 2003, leaving a position as the Physics Department Chair at Millikin University. The unique environment at Wabash has allowed Prof. Brown to express his diverse interests in quality teaching, nuclear physics research, science policy, and science in society. Prof. Brown is an experimental physicist and studies extremely neutron-rich nuclei at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory with his collaborators in the MoNA group, and enjoys using examples from his research in his courses.

Prof. Brown has a deep affinity for the liberal arts that was focused during his undergraduate years at Kalamazoo College. He has helped to create an all-college course for Freshmen, Enduring Questions, and has team-taught a course on Archeoastronomy of the Maya, with Profs. Rogers and Warner from the Spanish and History Departments respectively. Prof. Brown also has a keen interest in the impacts of science and society and how science can and should inform policy. Prof. Brown served as AAAS Science and Technology Fellow at the National Science Foundation during his most recent sabbatical year.

Ph.D. Physics, University of Michigan, 1993
B.A. Physics, Kalamazoo College, 1987

PHY 101 - Astronomy
PHY 111 – General Physics I
PHY 209 – General Physics III
PHY 210 – Modern Physics
PHY 220 – Electronics
PHY 230 – Thermal Physics
PHY 310 – Classical Mechanics

“Observation of a two-neutron cascade from a resonance in ²⁴O”, C. R. Hoffman, T. Baumann, J. Brown, P. A. DeYoung, J. E. Finck, N. Frank, J. Hinnefeld, S. Mosby, W. A. Peters, W. F. Rogers, A. Schiller, J. Snyder, A. Spyrou, S. L. Tabor, M. Thoennessen, Phys. Rev. C 83, 031303 (2011)

“Neutron knockout of ¹²Be populating unbound states in ¹¹Be” W. A. Peters, T. Baumann, B. A. Brown, J. Brown, P. A. DeYoung, J. E. Finck, N. Frank, K. L. Jones, J. L. Lecouey, B. Luther, G. F. Peaslee, W. F. Rogers, A. Schiller, M. Thoennessen, J. A. Tostevin, K. Yoneda, Phys. Rev. C 83, 031303 (2011)

“First evidence for a virtual ¹⁸B ground state”, A. Spyrou, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, G. Blanchon, A. Bonaccorso, E. Breitbach, J. Brown, G. Christian, A. DeLine, P. A. DeYoung, J. E. Finck, N. Frank, S. Mosby, W. A. Peters, A. Russel, A. Schiller, M. J. Strongman, M. Thoennessen, Phys. Lett. B 683, 129 (2010)

“First observation of excited states in ¹²Li” C. C. Hall, E. M. Lunderberg, P. A. DeYoung, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, G. Blanchon, A. Bonaccorso, E. Breitbach, B. A. Brown, J. Brown, G. Christian, D. H. Denby, J. Finck, N. Frank, A. Gade, J. Hinnefeld, C. R. Hoffman, B. Luther, S. Mosby, W. A. Peters, A. Spyrou, , M. Thoennessen, Phys. Rev. C 81, 021302 (2010)

“Evidence for a doubly magic ²⁴O”, C. R. Hoffman, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, J. Brown, G. Christian, D. H. Denby, P. A. DeYoung, J. E. Finck, N. Frank, J. Hinnefeld, S. Mosby, W. A. Peters, W. F . Rogers, A. Schiller, A. Spyrou, M. J. Scott, S. L. Tabor, M. Thoennessen, P. Voss, Phys. Lett. B 672, 17 (2009)

“Disappearance of the N=14 shell”, M. J. Strongman, A. Spyrou, C. R. Hoffman, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, J. Brown, P. A. DeYoung, J. E. Finck, N. Frank, S. Mosby, , W. F. Rogers, A. Schiller, S. L. Tabor, M. Thoennessen, Phys. Rev. C 80, 021302 (2009)