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22-1344: Brecher or Bröcher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Amaya Brecher, cast member of The Real World: Hawaii Aviva Brecher (born 1945), American applied physicist and transportation scientist Bob Brecher (born 1949), British philosopher Daniel Cil Brecher  [ de ] (born 1951), Israeli historian and author Edward M. Brecher (1912–1989), American author Egon Brecher (1880–1946), Austro-Hungarian actor and director Gary Brecher (born July 1955), American military writer Gideon Brecher (1797–1873), Jewish Bohemian-Austrian physician and writer Gustav Brecher (1879–1940), Jewish Bohemian-German conductor and composer Irving Brecher (1914–2008), American screenwriter Jeremy Brecher , historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author John Brecher , wine columnist of The Wall Street Journal Mark Elliott Brecher (born 1956), Retired Chief Medical Officer LabCorp , Emeritus Professor University of North Carolina Michael Brecher (1925–2022), Canadian academic in political science Steve Brecher (born 1945), American professional poker player See also [ edit ] 4242 Brecher , asteroid Brecker [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

44-702: A course on the subject given by Mildred Dresselhaus , and did summer research with Benjamin Lax at the MIT Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory. She also became secretary of the MIT Israeli Student Association and active in the MIT branch of Hillel International . She graduated from MIT in 1968, with both bachelor's and master's degrees in physics. Although Lax invited Brecher to remain at MIT and to continue her work with him as

66-487: A doctoral student, she was advised against this course of action by Dresselhaus, because the research would be classified and would channel her career into work at a federal defense laboratory. Instead, she became a doctoral student in applied physics at the University of California, San Diego , supported by an Amelia Earhart Fellowship, while her husband worked at UCSD as a postdoctoral researcher. Her official doctoral advisor

88-608: A new theory in Science in 1965 where it drew wider attention, with mostly negative comments. The paper was looked at in a new light after Wall collaborated with Bill Sweet to produce the Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator , developed along the lines of the theory. The effective working of the device validated Wall and Melzack's paper, and Wall gained acclaim as a leading neuroscientist. In 1965 he published TRIO - The Revolting Intellectuals' Organisation,

110-448: A researcher at the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, where her work included studies of magnetic levitation , unmanned aerial vehicles , and planning for potential transportation-related bioterrorism attacks, remote sensing , radiation exposure, prevention of drug trafficking, and air traffic control . She retired in 2015. In 1999, Brecher was elected as a Fellow of

132-638: A risk assessment expert for the Arthur D. Little company, on projects including nuclear waste management, mining , and space exploration . In 1983 and 1984 she worked as a Congressional Science Fellow for senator Paul Tsongas , where her work included opposition to anti-satellite weapons and to the Strategic Defense Initiative . After this, she remained at Arthur D. Little for another year until, in 1985, becoming Director of Academic Corporate Relation at Boston University . In 1986, Brecher became

154-512: A second collaboration a year later with The Textbook of Pain , which is currently in its sixth edition. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Physicians in 1984 and the Royal Society in 1989; by this point he had been repeatedly short-listed for a Nobel Prize . His left-wing views and the enemies that came with them were an apparent reason for his overdue election as a Fellow of

176-660: A thriller novel. In 1973 he acted as the scientific study officer for the launch of the International Association for the Study of Pain , and subsequently acted as the first editor of its medical journal, Pain . In 1967 he returned to Britain due to threats from the CIA that refusal to disclose the political affiliations of his research group could jeopardise his funding, and took up a position as Professor of Anatomy at University College London , under JZ Young . While there he

198-812: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Aviva Brecher Brecher was born on July 4, 1945, to a Jewish family in Bucharest , where her father was a gynecologist. Her family moved to Israel when she was 15. While attending high school in Israel, she meet and became involved with her future husband, Kenneth Brecher , a physics student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who had visited Israel to work with Nathan Rosen . After graduating as valedictorian from high school in Kiryat Haim , she began her university studies in applied physics at

220-629: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He was promoted to full professor in 1960, and while at the Institute met Ronald Melzack , who was to become a long-time collaborator. At Melzack's urging they wrote a paper on the Gate control theory of pain and published it in Brain in 1962; according to Wall it was read by around three people. After expanding and rewriting the article they republished it as Pain Mechanisms:

242-544: The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology , but transferred to MIT to be closer to Brecher, whom she married in Israel before moving to the US and becoming a naturalized US citizen. As an MIT student, she began her studies in biophysics, working with Patrick David Wall and Jerome Lettvin on research leading to the invention of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation , but switched to solid-state physics after being inspired by

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264-547: The United States where he took up a position as an instructor at the Yale School of Medicine investigating the use of lobotomies as a method of controlling depression. Wall remained as an instructor until 1950, when he was offered a position as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago . He moved again in 1953 to serve as an instructor at Harvard University , and again in 1957 to work as an associate professor at

286-628: The interstellar medium . She completed her Ph.D. in 1972. After completing her Ph.D., Brecher returned to MIT as a postdoctoral researcher in earth and planetary sciences, remaining there as a research associate from 1972 to 1977 and doing research on the properties of Moon rocks collected by the Apollo program . She became an assistant professor at Wellesley College from 1977 to 1980, while continuing to run her research program and occasionally lecture at MIT. Unable to be considered for tenure at Wellesley, Brecher dropped out of academia in 1980 to become

308-443: The surname Brecher . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brecher&oldid=1162255568 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

330-608: The American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Forum on Physics and Society, "for her many contributions to society in the areas of transportation research, environmental mitigation and strategic arms control". She was a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer for 2002–2003. Asteroid 4242 Brecher , discovered in 1981, was named in honor of Brecher and her husband. Patrick David Wall Patrick David Wall (25 April 1925 – 8 August 2001) FRS

352-579: The Royal Society, along with the society's reluctance to elect medical officials. He was awarded the Sherrington Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1988, and in 1992 he was also elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Anaesthesiologists. He retired the same year and continued experimental research at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School . In 1999 he was awarded the Royal Medal 'in recognition of his fundamental contributions to our knowledge of

374-597: The prominent science journals Brain and Nature , at the age of 21. While at Oxford he had also helped found the British Medical Students' Journal, partially to help campaign for the introduction of the National Health Service (NHS). He graduated in 1948, by which time he had published three papers in prominent science journals. After graduating, he spent a short time treating holocaust survivors and refugees in mainland Europe, and then moved to

396-469: The somatosensory system and, in particular, pain mechanisms'. Wall was married three times; first to Betty Tucker on 10 August 1950, an artist and poet whom he divorced in 1973, second to Vera Ronnen on 26 August 1976, an artist from Jerusalem whom he also divorced and finally to Mary McLellan on 6 May 1999. Wall was a chain-smoker, and enjoyed bird-watching outside of his work, although he preferred not to talk about his personal life. An exception to this

418-525: Was a British neuroscientist described as 'the world's leading expert on pain ' and best known for the gate control theory of pain . Wall was born in Nottingham on 25 April 1925 to Thomas Wall, the director of education for Middlesex , and his wife Ruth Cresswell. He was educated at St Paul's School, London and the University of Oxford , studying medicine at Christ Church, Oxford , where he became interested in pain. He published his first two papers, in

440-520: Was given the nickname of "Mr Pat". Thanks to his reputation as a neuroscientist the laboratories at UCL attracted a large number of students and researchers, and his lectures were well received by both students and fellow lecturers. In 1972 he travelled to Jerusalem , and subsequently held a chair at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where he taught for several months a year. In 1982 he published The Challenge of Pain with Melzack followed by

462-470: Was oceanographer Gustaf Arrhenius, the grandson and son-in-law of Nobel laureates Svante Arrhenius and George de Hevesy ; she was also mentored at UCSD by another Nobel laureate, Hannes Alfvén . Her doctoral research included work on the formation of asteroids and meteorites, the interactions of this formation process with the magnetic field of the Solar System , and the possibility of chemical reactions in

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484-507: Was politics; Wall was fervently left-wing, and had set up various student and other organisations to support various causes. In 1996 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer after collapsing while on holiday in Cork . After treatment he went into remission, which held for five years; the cancer returned in 2001, and after a kidney operation on 2 August he discharged himself on 8 August so he could die at home. While suffering from cancer he had published

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