{"id":346,"date":"2013-05-30T09:41:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T13:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=346"},"modified":"2019-02-11T12:51:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:51:34","slug":"kenneth-brecher","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/profile\/kenneth-brecher\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Brecher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong>: <em>Neutron stars; High-energy astrophysics; Cosmology and relativity; Historical astronomy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Professor 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 (cf.\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lite.bu.edu\/\">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\/\">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\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/346\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}