Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers

Brian Hilton Flowers, Baron Flowers FRS (13 September 1924 – 25 June 2010 ) was a British physicist, academician, and public servant.

Early life and studies The son of the Rev. Harold Joseph Flowers and Mrs Marian Flowers, Brian Hilton Flowers was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. He was educated in Swansea at Bishop Gore School, where a teacher, Mr Foukes, encouraged his interest in physics. He went on to study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated in physics and electronics. 1969: Knighted 1979: Made a life peer with the title Baron Flowers, of Queen's Gate in the City of Westminster on 20 February 1979. 1981: Made an Officer of the French Légion d'honneur.

Personal life From 1951 until his death he was married to Mary Frances Behrens, and had two stepsons, Peter and Michael.

Selected works 1970: Properties of Matter. Chichester: Wiley (with Eric Mendoza) 1995: An Introduction to Numerical Methods in C++, Oxford: Clarendon Press