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complete name:	Michael Stuart Brown
nobel prize:	medicine
award year:	1985
together with:	Joseph L. Goldstein
prize share:	Prize share: 1/2
rational:	The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1985 was awarded jointly to Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein "for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism."
biography:	Biography
laureate facts:	Facts
laureate lecture:	Lecture
given name:	Michael
family name:	Brown
occupation:	physician
occupation:	university teacher
occupation:	geneticist
field of work:	biochemistry
field of work:	genetics
work location:	University of Texas System, Austin, United States of America
description:	Michael Stuart Brown is an American geneticist and Nobel laureate. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph L. Goldstein in 1985 for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
image copyright:	Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
image citation:	The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1985. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1985/summary/>
date birth:	1941
usual name:	Michael Brown