1941 - Born on April 13th in Brooklyn, New York. American psychologist.
1962 - Brown graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania, with chemistry as his major subject.
1964 - He married Alice Lapin.
1966 - Brown received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
- Brown received several student awards at the University of Pennsylvania, including a Proctor and Gamble Scholarship, the David L. Drabkin Prize in Biochemistry, and the Frederick L. Packard Prize in Internal Medicine.
1971 - Brown joined the division of Gastroenterology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.
1974 - Brown was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
- He was an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association.
1976 - He became a Professor.
1977 - He was appointed Paul J. Thomas Professor of Medicine and Genetics, and Director of the Center for Genetic Disease at the same institution.
1980 - He has been a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors of the Jane Coffin Childs Fund.
1982 - Brown received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Chicago and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
1985 - Brown was appointed Regental Professor of the University of Texas.
- He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph Goldstein for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.