Dr. Brian Dickens, for over 30 years a physical chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), died on August 21, 2012 from a brain tumor.
Brian Dickens was born in England. At age 11 he went on a scholarship to Bolton School (UK), where he learned enough chemistry to begin his career at age 17 as an analytical chemist in a lead-acid battery factory and enough physics to design printed circuit boards at the end of his career. Because he had left the school to take a job, he continued his education at night school and later advanced to the level of Associate of the Royal Institute of Chemistry (ARIC).
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