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{{short description|British ichthyologist (1918-2009)}}
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| name = Margaret Elizabeth Brown
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| birth_place = [[Mussorie]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age |2009|07|18 |1918|09|28|df=yes}}
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| fields = [[Ichthyology]], [[Ecophysiology]]
| workplaces =Girton College, Cambridge [[University of Cambridge]] [[King's College, London]] [[St Hilda's College, Oxford]] [[Open University]]
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| education = [[Malvern Girls College]]
| alma_mater = [[Girton College, Cambridge]] ([[Master of Arts|M.A.]] and [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]])
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'''Margaret Elizabeth Brown''' (28 September 1918 – 18 July 2009) was an Indian-born British [[ichthyologist]]. Her work on the [[brown trout]] (''Salmo trutta'') after [[World War II]] "effectively established the discipline of [[ecophysiology]]."<ref name=obit/>

==Life==
Her father serving in the [[Indian Civil Service]], Brown was born in [[Mussorie]], [[India]] on 28 September 1918. She attended [[Malvern Girls College]] before she won a scholarship to [[Girton College, Cambridge]], in 1937 where she studied [[zoology]] under [[Sidnie Manton]]. Awarded her [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in 1944, she studied the for her [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] which she received the following year. Brown married Professor [[George C. Varley]] in 1955 and died on 18 July 2009.<ref>Haines, pp. 45–46</ref><ref name=obit>{{cite journal|last1=Pond|first1=Caroline|title=Dr Margaret (Peggy) Varley, pioneer ecophysiologist and ichthyologist|url=https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/dr-margaret-peggy-varley-pioneer-ecophysiologist-and-ichthyologist-RiOQmn8dqQ|journal=Fish and Fisheries|access-date=2 November 2017|pages=359–360|language=en|doi=10.1111/j.1467-2979.2009.00344.x|date=1 December 2009|volume=10|issue=4}}</ref>

==Work==
During World War II, Brown was a [[lecturer]] at Girton in between stints of farmwork as a [[Women's Land Army|land girl]]. She continued to teach at Girton and the [[University of Cambridge]] until 1950 when she was a visiting scientist at the East African Fisheries Research Organization in [[Jinja, Uganda]] for a year. Upon her return home, Brown became a lecturer in zoology at [[King's College, London]] until her marriage in 1955. She published the seminal ''Physiology of Fishes'' that created the field of ecophysiology in 1957. Two years later she was appointed lecturer in zoology at [[St Hilda's College, Oxford]] and became a tutor in 1961. Brown became a [[senior lecturer]] at the [[Open University]] in 1969 and was promoted to [[reader (academic rank)|reader]] in 1969. She was a member of the [[Linnean Society]] and served as their vice-president in 1982.<ref name=obit/><ref>Haines, p. 46</ref> The [[cichlid]] ''[[Haplochromis brownae]]'' is thought to be named in her honour.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/cichlidae3/ | title = Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (h-k) | access-date= 7 December 2018 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 21 Aug 2018}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
{{cite book|last=Haines|first=Catherine M. C.|title=International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950|year=2001|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, California|isbn=978-1-57607-090-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/internationalwom00hain}}

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[[Category:1918 births]]
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[[Category:20th-century British women scientists]]
[[Category:20th-century British scientists]]
[[Category:Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:People educated at Malvern St James]]
[[Category:Academics of King's College London]]
[[Category:British ichthyologists]]
[[Category:Women ichthyologists]]
[[Category:Ecophysiologist]]
[[Category:20th-century zoologists]]
[[Category:People from Mussoorie]]

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