Scientist (musician)

Scientist
Birth nameHopeton Overton Brown
Also known asScientist
Born (1960-04-18) 18 April 1960 (age 64)
OriginKingston, Jamaica
Genres
LabelsDub Мир
Greensleeves
Tuff Gong

Hopeton Overton Brown (born 18 April 1960 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a recording engineer and producer who rose to fame in the 1980s mixing dub music as "Scientist". A protégé of King Tubby (Osbourne Ruddock), Scientist's contemporaries include several figures who, working at King Tubby's studio, had helped pioneer the genre in the 1970s: Ruddock, Bunny Lee, Philip Smart, Pat Kelly and Prince Jammy.