Donald Braben

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Donald W. Braben
Born (1935-05-29) 29 May 1935 (age 86)[1]
Liverpool, England
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Liverpool
Known forBlue skies research
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity College London
University of Liverpool
ThesisEnergy levels of Na 23 (1962)
Websitewww.ucl.ac.uk/planetary-sciences/people/dwbra04

Donald W. Braben is a British author and Honorary Professor in the Office of the Vice-Provost (Research), University College London.[1]

Education[]

Braben was educated at the University of Liverpool where he was awarded a PhD in 1962 for work on Isotopes of sodium.[2]

Research[]

Braben is a well-known advocate of academic freedom,[3][4] blue skies research,[5][6][7] and the culture of science.[8] Braben is the author of "To Be a Scientist: The Spirit of Adventure in Science and Technology", (OUP 1994), Pioneering Research: A Risk Worth Taking (Wiley 2004) and Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization (Wiley 2008), Promoting the Planck Club. How defiant youth, irreverent researchers and liberated universities can foster prosperity indefinitely (Wiley 2014). Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilisation was republished by Stripe Press in 2020 with a new Introduction. Braben is now trying to persuade universities to recreate the considerable success he has had with the BP sponsored Venture Research Unit (1980-90), and later at University College London (2009 - ). Venture Research is the research that has a good chance of radically changing the way we think in an important field and is selected in face-to-face discussion. </ref>

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Donald Braben UCL Earth Sciences - UCL - Blue Skies Research". Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  2. ^ Braben, Donald W. (2012). Energy Levels of Na 23 (PhD thesis). University of Liverpool.(subscription required)
  3. ^ Donald W. Braben (2008). Scientific freedom: the elixir of civilization. New York: Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 0-470-22654-4.
  4. ^ Augsdorfer, P. (2008). "Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization. By Donald W. Braben". ChemBioChem. 9 (17): 2889–2890. doi:10.1002/cbic.200800670.
  5. ^ Braben, D. W. (2004). Pioneering research: a risk worth taking. New York: Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 0-471-48852-6.
  6. ^ Braben, D. (2002). "Blue Skies Research and the global economy". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 314: 768–773. Bibcode:2002PhyA..314..768B. doi:10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01065-8.
  7. ^ Braben, D. W. (1985). "Innovation and academic research". Nature. 316 (6027): 401. Bibcode:1985Natur.316..401B. doi:10.1038/316401a0.
  8. ^ Braben, D. W. (1994). To be a scientist. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852290-8.
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