Donald Braben

Donald W. Braben is a British author and Honorary Professor in the department of Earth Sciences, 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).^[9]

References

1. 1 2 "Donald Braben UCL Earth Sciences - UCL - Blue Skies Research". Retrieved 2011-07-26. 
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: 768–138. 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. 
9. ↑ "Blue Skies Research". Retrieved 2012-12-10.