Theodore Melnechuk
Theodore (Ted) Melnechuk was a poet, academic, science communicator and translator.
Born in New York City on January 7, 1928, Melnechuk worked at several universities including MIT, Boston University, UC San Diego, Columbia and U Mass Amherst.[1][2] He died March 1, 2017.
His son Nikhil Melnechuk is a film maker and the executive director of the Bowery_Poetry_Club.
Poetry
At Columbia College, he was art and poetry editor of both Jester and the Columbia Review.[3]
Alan Ginsberg and Theodore Melnechuk met at Columbia University 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.[4][5]
Melnechuk's poems "Punch and Judy to Their Audience" and "Individuality" were featured in Marvin Minsky's 1986 book The Society of Mind.
Although Theodore authored thousands of poems, some published under his pen name Dr. Orpheus, many remain unpublished.[6]
Scientific Publications
Co-editor of the influential The Neurosciences: A Study Program[7] which is now considered a landmark work that launched the neuroscience research program at MIT.[8]
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.[9] This lead to the publication of Cell Receptor Disorders by the Western Behavior Sciences Institute in 1978.[10]
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.[11]
Theodore Melnechuk was an associate editor of William G. Maass' International Science and Technology magazine that targeted "the top 10% of the world's scientists and engineers".[12]
References
- ↑ "Columbia University Obituaries".
- ↑ "UMass Amherst Faculty and Staff Collection".
- ↑ "Theodore Melnechuk Obituary".
- ↑ "Friday's Weekly Round-Up – 33". July 15, 2011.
- ↑ "Allen Ginsberg Papers 1937-2017".
- ↑ "TED MELNECHUK Poet and Scientist".
- ↑ Quarton, Garnder C.; Schmitt, Francis O.; Melnechuk, Theodore, eds. (1967). The Neurosciences: A Study Program. Rockefeller Univ. Press. Search this book on
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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. Emotions and Psychopathology. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-1987-1_8. Search this book on
- ↑ Wisnioski, Matthew (2025). "4. Be An Innovation Millionaire". Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262381079. Search this book on
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