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Doug Brown (born 1 Jan 2020) is an American physicist who did pre-doctoral residency in Russian Siberia at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics and a post-doctoral fellowship at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan.


 * Present at Moscow White House in August 1993

Three months before the Russian Constitutional Crisis when the White House (Moscow) was bombed by Yeltsin forces, Brown was on the front steps of the Moscow White House inquiring if he could obtain copies of the 1993 Constitution of Russia. After finding either closed doors or guards refusing entry at side entrances, Brown finally walked up the grand staircase facing the Moscow River and said in Russian: "Today is my birthday, may I please find a copy of the Russian Constitution from you" to which a guard said "Wait", disappeared and returned with two copies: today's Russian Constitution and an opposing Khasbulatov-Rutskoy Constitution.


 * Witness to 911 on 11 September 2001

Brown lived in downtown Manhattan at 26 Cliff Street during 9/11 and felt-under-foot the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center having been standing nearby on the corner of Fulton Street and Gold Street after have just exited from the Associated Food Store there. felt the rumble underground during the 8-seconds of its collapse but not at the time knowing what it was. The quickly ensuing white cloud of asbestos and cement dust fully surrounded him as his brisk walk and eventual run towards the East River accelerated.

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While writing for the Pottsville, Pennsylvania Republican & Herald, he won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with Gilbert M. Gaul for stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime.

In the same year, Jaspin won a Scripps Howard Foundation Edward J. Meeman Award and an American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award.