William Crary Brownell had the misfortune of living for over a generation into the twentieth century, well beyond the late-Victorian milieu in which his critical temper worked with synthetic ease and assurance. Increasingly anachronistic as a man of...

Gordon L. Brownell, PhD. professor emeritus of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and honorary physicist in the radiology department at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), was named the recipient of the 2006 Loevinger-Berman Award for Excellence in Internal Dosimetry,...

KIRKVILLE--When two machinists joined forces in a garage nearly 50 years ago, they couldn't have imagined how large their venture would become. Burton Manth and Vernon Brownell machined metal parts for local manufacturers such as Smith-Corona. The company they founded in 1951 now ships...