On 25 June 2010 the world lost a great man, Brian Hilton Flowers, who throughout his very productive and influential life had enormous impact on the organization of science and technology, as well as other aspects of society, especially university education. Many facets of his work have been reported in earlier obituaries in the mainstream press and in the physics community’s newspaper ‘‘Interactions’’. Here we remember particularly another of his achievements, not reported in those mainstream media. Brian Flowers was the second Editor of Advances in Physics for Volumes 8–11 (1959–1961). The journal prospered under his direction. In the same year that he assumed the Editorship Flowers instigated another important advance in physics, in this case in education, the complete revamping of the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Manchester, which he kick-started with an exciting new lecture course on ‘‘Properties of Matter’’. Among the first cohort to take and appreciate this course was the present Editor of Advances in Physics, for whom it was a defining experience, sparking his interest and enthusiasm for condensed matter physics, which led, in turn, to his own assumption of the stewardship. As noted briefly above and detailed in other obituaries and tributes, Flowers was extremely influential as Chairman of many governmental, national and international committees. Of particular note for the whole UK science community are his direction of the Science Research Council during 1967–73 and his membership of the House of Lords Select Committee for Science and Technology between 1982 and 2002, for Europe his pressing for the establishment of the European Science Foundation and serving as its first President 1974–79, and for the physics community his Presidency of the Institute of Physics during 1972–74. We mourn his passage and express much gratitude for all he has done.

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弗劳斯勋爵：1924–2010

2010 年 6 月 25 日，世界失去了一位伟人布赖恩·希尔顿·弗劳尔斯（Brian Hilton Flowers），他在他非常富有成效和影响力的一生中对科学技术组织以及社会的其他方面，尤其是大学教育产生了巨大影响。他的工作的许多方面已经在主流媒体和物理学界的报纸“互动”的早期讣告中进行了报道。在这里我们特别记得他的另一项成就，那些主流媒体没有报道。Brian Flowers 是《物理学进展》第 8-11 卷（1959-1961）的第二任编辑。杂志在他的指导下蒸蒸日上。在他担任主编的同一年，Flowers 推动了物理学的另一项重要进步，在教育方面，曼彻斯特大学本科课程的全面改革，他以令人兴奋的新讲座课程“物质的性质”开始。第一批参加并欣赏这门课程的是现任《物理学进展》编辑，对他来说这是一次决定性的经历，激发了他对凝聚态物理学的兴趣和热情，这反过来又导致他自己承担管理职责. 正如上文简要提及并在其他讣告和悼词中详述的那样，弗劳尔斯作为许多政府、国家和国际委员会的主席极具影响力。整个英国科学界特别值得注意的是他在 1967-73 年期间对科学研究委员会的指导，以及他在 1982 年至 2002 年期间担任上议院科学技术特别委员会的成员，对于欧洲，他敦促成立欧洲科学基金会并在 1974-79 年担任其第一任主席，并在 1972-74 年期间担任物理学界的主席。我们哀悼他的逝世，并对他所做的一切表示感谢。