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Theodore Melnechuk (January 7, 1928 - March 1, 2017) was a poet and academic specializing in science communication.
Biography
[edit]Theodore was born in New York City and attended Brooklyn Technical High School and then Columbia College. After graduation he married Ann Krilovitch and had four children.
Melnechuk worked in science communication at several universities including MIT, Boston University, UC San Diego.[1][2]
His grandson Nikhil Melnechuk is a film maker and the executive director of the Bowery_Poetry_Club.[3]
Poetry
[edit]Theodore was publishing from poetry from a young age, while attending Brooklyn Technical High School he founded the Horizons, an Arts and Literary magazine that continues to this day.[4] While attending Columbia College, he was art and poetry editor of both Jester and the Columbia Review.[5]
Alan Ginsberg and Theodore Melnechuk met at Columbia College where they swept the undergraduate poetry competition with classmate John Hollander. They became lifelong friends and maintained a twenty year correspondence that is now part of the Ginsberg Papers Archives.[6][7] Both Theodore Melnechuk and Allen Ginsberg won the Philolexian Prize for poetry in 1947.[8]
Melnechuk's poems "Punch and Judy to Their Audience" and "Individuality" were featured in Marvin Minsky's 1986 book The Society of Mind. His poetry was notable for its frequent use of mathematical concepts and scientific jargon - likely also limiting its appeal and reach. His poetry was featured in several scientific publications that otherwise did not feature such prose, such as Trends in Neurosciences and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.[9][10] A poem that Melnechuk presented at the 1985 Conference on Brain Dynamics in Berlin was included in Frederick David Abraham's dedication to Walker Jackson Freeman.[11]
Although Theodore authored thousands of poems, some published under his pen name Dr. Orpheus, many remain unpublished.[12] His translations of Lithuanian poems were published in The Green Oak (1962) and The Green Linden (1964).
Scientific career
[edit]Theodore Melnechuk in 1961 became the senior editor of William G. Maass' International Science and Technology magazine that targeted "the top 10% of the world's scientists and engineers".[13]
In 1963 he moved to MIT and became the co-editor of the influential The Neurosciences: A Study Program[14] which is now considered a landmark work [15][16] that launched the Neuroscience Research Program (NRP) at MIT, where he served as the director.[17][18]
In 1977 Theodore Melnechuk was awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how science communication could be accelerated by bringing experts together with phone and in person meetings.[19] This lead to the publication of Cell Receptor Disorders by the Western Behavior Sciences Institute in 1978.[20]
Theodore Melnechuk authored the cover story of the 1983 Psychology Today article about Francis Crick's controversial "reverse learning" hypothesis entitled Dreaming: A Startling New Analysis from the Man Who Brought You DNA, as well as a chapter in the book Emotions and Psychopathology.[21]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Columbia University Obituaries". Columbia College Today. Vol. 44, no. 4. Summer 2017.
- ↑ "UMass Amherst Faculty and Staff Collection".
- ↑ Holman, Bob (2015). "in Conversation Nikhil Melnechuk". Brooklyn Rail. p. 81. ISSN 2157-2151.
- ↑ Wong, Brandon; Badawi, Leah (November 19, 2022). "Horizons–The Passion of Art Within the Students of a STEM School".
- ↑ "Theodore Melnechuk Obituary". Daily Hampshire Gazette. March 18, 2017. p. b2.
- ↑ "Friday's Weekly Round-Up – 33". July 15, 2011.
- ↑ "Allen Ginsberg Papers 1937-2017".
- ↑ "6,876 Get Degrees at Columbia Today". Jun 3, 1947. p. 17.
- ↑ Melnechuk, Theodore (Autumn 1966). "Wavy Lines on the Imminent Departure of Alpha Helix from La Jolla for the Great South Seas". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 10 (1): 81–83.
- ↑ Melnechuk, Theodore (February 1995). "Neuronuggets: a selection and a prediction". Trends in Neurosciences. 18 (1): 72–74. doi:10.1016/0166-2236(95)80026-X.
- ↑ Abraham, Frederick David. "Intentional Neurodynamics in Transition: the Dynamical Legacy of Walter Jackson Freeman". Chaos and Complexity Letters. 11 (1). ISSN 1556-3995.
- ↑ "TED MELNECHUK Poet and Scientist".
- ↑ Wisnioski, Matthew (2025). "4. Be An Innovation Millionaire". Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262381079.
- ↑ Quarton, Gardner C.; Schmitt, Francis O.; Melnechuk, Theodore, eds. (1967). The Neurosciences: A Study Program. Rockefeller Univ. Press.
- ↑ David, Hallowell Davis (February 1969). "Books Reviewed: The Neurosciences: A Study Program". Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology. 78 (1). doi:10.1177/000348946907800120.
- ↑ Lennox, Edwin (December 6, 1968). "Efforts toward a New Science". Science. 162: 1114–1115. doi:10.1126/science.162.
{{cite journal}}: Text "number-3858" ignored (help) - ↑ Adelman, G. (Jan 15, 2010). "The neurosciences research program at MIT and the beginning of the modern field of neuroscience". Journal of the History of Neuroscience. 19 (1): 15–23. doi:10.1080/09647040902720651.
- ↑ Prkachin, Yvan (March 30, 2021). ""The Sleeping Beauty of the Brain": Memory, MIT, Montreal, and the Origins of Neuroscience". Isis. 112 (1). doi:10.1086/713795.
- ↑ "Science World's Robin Hood Wants to Spread the Wealth". The Register. La Jolla, CA. Jan 15, 1977. p. 36.
- ↑ Blecher, Martin (1979). "(Review of) Cell Receptor Disorders". Clinical Chemistry. 35 (2): 341.
- ↑ Melnechuk, T. (1988). "Emotions, Brain, Immunity, and Health: A Review". In Clynes, M.; Panksepp, J. (eds.). Emotions and Psychopathology. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-1987-1_8.