{"id":3011,"date":"2016-01-13T17:11:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2016-01-13T17:11:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:11:52","slug":"amir-aczel-1950-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/2016\/01\/13\/amir-aczel-1950-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Amir Aczel 1950-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center is saddened to announce the death of our long-time friend and visiting researcher, Amir Aczel. You can find his obituary from the New York Times here: <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/08\/science\/amir-aczel-author-of-scientific-cliffhanger-dies-at-65.html?_r=0&amp;pagewanted=all\">Amir Aczel, Author of Scientific Cliffhanger, dies at 65<\/a>. In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/nqgccz24\">Go Fund Me<\/a>, to Amir&#8217;s last project to have the ancient Khmer stele with the world&#8217;s oldest recorded zero installed at the National Museum of Cambodia. More information on the project and Dr. Aczel&#8217;s research can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/01\/03\/374737120\/the-zig-zagging-history-of-the-number-zero\">The Zig-Zagging History Of The Number Zero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There will be an event in Dr. Aczel&#8217;s memory at the Brookline Booksmith, Harvard Street, Brookline, on February 4th at 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>He will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center is saddened to announce the death of our long-time friend and visiting researcher, Amir Aczel. You can find his obituary from the New York Times here: Amir Aczel, Author of Scientific Cliffhanger, dies at 65. In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made via Go Fund Me, to Amir&#8217;s last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6868,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}