Talk:Gene Brown (professor)

A fact from Gene Brown (professor) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 August 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Gene Brown taught the same biochemistry course for 50 years?

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Don't we know when this guy was born? Died if not alive? Looks like he was probably in WWII also. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8805:5800:AD00:9C9D:6AB3:CBF8:A317 (talk) 01:37, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

He's alive and still advising students (or may have stopped advising fairly recently). No source for a birth year but the dates and ages he gives for various events in the Infinite History interview suggest 1926 or thereabouts. As mentioned in the article, he was in the Army Air Corps - there's a bit more detail on this in the interview (page 5 in the PDF). Opabinia regalis (talk) 01:53, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]