Ivan Brown obituary

In 1953, our father, Ivan Brown, who has died aged 86, was working at the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company when a colleague mentioned that “the group next door” was looking for a research assistant. Ivan leapt at the chance to do something different, and joined the Medical Research Council’s applied psychology unit (APU) as a technician. Within 21 years, he had risen to the position of assistant director of the APU, and by the time he retired in 1993 he had published more than 130 s