Michael Stuart Brown ForMemRS NAS AAA&S APS 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. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1985, announced October 14, 1985. Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein, “for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism”. Michael S. Brown: born 1941, New York, NY, USA. Joseph L. Goldstein: born 1940, Sumter, SC, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).