She worked in the chemistry department as an assistant and in the library. Grasselli Brown graduated from John Adams High School in 1946, and attended Ohio University from 1946 to 1950. Her high school chemistry teacher told her if she majored in chemistry, he would be able to get her a scholarship to his alma mater, Ohio University, which he did. However, when she took her first chemistry class, she fell in love with the subject. At John Adams, she was in a college track program and planned to major in English in college. Grasselli Brown attended Harvey Rice Elementary School, Alexander Hamilton Junior High and John Adams High School in Cleveland, Ohio. While she was in college, her parents divorced.
Her brother Robert died from Hodgkin's lymphoma. The foundry eventually failed and the family went bankrupt. Īround 1946, her father opened a business in Elyria, Ohio making sand cast aluminum parts. Her parents valued education and encouraged her to receive a college education in spite of economic and family difficulties. She grew up in a Hungarian neighborhood in the Buckeye Road area in Cleveland, Ohio during the Great Depression. Grasselli Brown was born in 1928 to Hungarian immigrant parents Nicholas and Vera Gecsy.
She is considered one of the foremost contributors to infrared and Raman spectrometry of the 20th century. ĭuring her career, Grasselli Brown has striven to bridge the gap between research and practical applications between industry and academia. She developed new techniques to solve problems like identifying contaminants in gasoline, analyzing the makeup of new plastics, and analyzing environmental problems such as pollution. Her areas of expertise encompass fields such as vibrational spectroscopy, combined instrumental techniques, computerized spectroscopy, and environmental spectroscopy. Spectroscopy is a technique used to measure the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter. Jeanette Grasselli Brown (born Jeanette Gecsy August 4, 1928) is an American analytical chemist and spectroscopist who is known for her work with Standard Oil of Ohio (now BP America) as an industrial researcher in the field of spectroscopy.
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