Dr. Charles Albert Browne was an eminent agricultural chemist with an international reputation for his work on sugar. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., and then went to Germany where he studied sugar chemistry and received his doctorate at the University of Gottingen in 1901. He spent his career as an agricultural research chemist in the field of sugar chemistry and technology working for both state and federal agencies.
From the description of Charles Albert Browne report, 1932. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 76292759
Charles Albert Browne was an American chemist, science writer and food technologist dealing primarily with sugar.
From the description of Charles Albert Browne papers, 1896-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122575973
From the guide to the Charles Albert Browne papers, 1896-1947, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.)
Chemist, food technologist, and agriculturalist.
From the description of Papers of Charles Albert Browne, 1895-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78802250
Browne was Chief, Bureau of Chemistry, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. He kept detailed journals of his trips through Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific basin, visiting museums, libraries, food processing plants, laboratories, and sugar plantations. He also noted various aspects of regional industries involving agricultural and dairy products, and discussed his conversations with scientists, academics, and diplomatic contacts abroad. On these trips, he was accompanied by his wife, Louise, and on the 1929-1930 trip, by their daughter, Caroline.
Browne was one of the organizers of the History of Chemistry Section (later Division) of the American Chemical Society.
See Chymia, 1 (1948), 11-22, for a tribute to Browne, and a bibliography of Browne's contributions to the history of chemistry.
From the description of Charles Albert Browne papers, 1926-1942. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 191734848
Biographical Note
1870, Aug. 12
Born, North Adams, Mass.
circa 1888
1896
Attended Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
circa 1895
1900
Instructor and assistant research chemist, Pennsylvania State College,
State College, Pa.
1901
Ph.D., University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
1902
1906
Research chemist, Louisiana sugar experiment station, New Orleans,
La.
1906
1907
Chief, Sugar laboratory, Bureau of Chemistry, Department of
Agriculture
1907
1923
Founded and served as chief chemist, New York Sugar Trade Laboratory
1912
Published A Handbook of Sugar Analysis. New York: John
Wiley & Sons, Inc.
1918, Feb. 9
Married Louise McDanell
1923
1934
Chief, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Department of Agriculture
1929
1930
Traveled through Europe and Asia
1935
Representative to Congress of International Sugar Cane Technologists,
Brisbane, Australia
1935
1940
Chief, Bureau of Agricultural Research and Engineering, Department of
Agriculture
1943
Published Thomas Jefferson and the Scientific Trends of his
Time. New York: G. E. Stechert & Co.
1944
Awarded Nicholas Appert Medal
1944
Published A Source Book of Agricultural Chemistry. New
York: G. E. Stechert & Co.
1947, Feb. 3
Died, Washington, D.C.
1952
Posthumous publication with Mary Elvira Weeks, A History of the
American Chemical Society. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical
Society
From the guide to the Charles Albert Browne Papers, 1783-1947, (bulk 1909-1945), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)
