{"id":1758,"date":"2013-05-20T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1758"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:32:45","slug":"kenneth-brecher","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/profile\/kenneth-brecher\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Brecher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/files\/2013\/11\/Brecher-cv-2013.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Research Interests:<\/strong> <i>Neutron stars; high-energy astrophysics; cosmology and relativity; historical astronomy.<\/i><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nProfessor Brecher&#8217;s astrophysical research interests center on a range of topics in theoretical high-energy astrophysics including neutron stars, pulsars, x-ray binary sources, supernovae and gamma-ray bursters. He is currently engaged in several materials, software, hardware and curriculum development projects for use in K &#8211; 12, undergraduate and informal science education. He is the Principal Investigator on &#8220;Project LITE: Light Inquiry Through Experiments&#8221;, which is developing materials about light, optics, color and perception (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lite.bu.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/lite.bu.edu <\/a>). He is co-initiator and Project Scientist on the &#8220;MicroObservatory Project&#8221; which has developed a network of automated astronomical telescopes for student use (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mo-www.harvard.edu\/MicroObservatory\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/mo-www.harvard.edu\/MicroObservatory\/<\/a>). He has also worked on the history of astronomy, archaeoastronomy and the application of early astronomical records to modern astrophysical problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2122,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8757,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1758\/revisions\/8757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}