Joseph Brain (academic)
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Joseph Brain | |
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Joseph David Brain | |
| Born | January 20, 1940 Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | January 29, 2024 (aged 84) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | |
| Spouse | Judith Barbara Brain |
| Children | 3 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Environmental health, nanomedicine, physics, medicine, public health research, air quality, physiology |
| Institutions | |
Joseph David Brain (January 20, 1940 – January 29, 2024) was an American physiologist and environmental health researcher, who served as the Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,[1][2] where he taught and researched for over fifty years.
Born in Paterson, New Jersey and raised in Wayne, New Jersey, Brain attended Eastern Christian High School in North Haledon, New Jersey,[3] after which he went in 1957 to Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, where he majored in physics. After his graduation from (then) Taylor College, Brain was offered the Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1961–1966) at Harvard.[4]
Education
- High School Diploma, 1957, Eastern Christian High School, North Haledon, New Jersey[3][5]
- B.A. (Physics, Summa cum laude), 1961, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana[6][7][5]
- S.M., 1962, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences - on Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1961–1966)
- S.M., 1963, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences - on Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1961–1966)
- S.D., 1966, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - on Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1961–1966)[5]
Career
Brain served as the Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology[8] at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and participated in the leadership of The Lown Institute.[9][10] After graduation from Taylor, Brain was offered the Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1961–1966) at Harvard.[4]
Brain took part in a five-year collaboration signed between the University of Malaya (UM) and Harvard University in the search for more effective treatment of lung diseases through nanomedicine. In 1998, he was named the Director of the Kresge Center for Environmental Health at Harvard.
Brain was director of Respiratory Biology Program (1981–1993) and Physiology Program (1993–1997). He was also chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (1990–2005).
Personal life and death
Brain was married and lived in Essex, Massachusetts. He served on the Taylor University Board of Trustees from 1988 to 2009.
Joseph Brain died on January 29, 2024, at the age of 84.[11]
Honors
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship in Health Physics 1961–1962
- Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship 1961–1966
- USPHS Radiological Health Fellowship 1962–1966
- NIH Research Career Development Award 1969–1974
- Aaron Brown Lecturer (University of Pittsburgh) 1981
- American Men and Women of Science 1982
- Alumnus of the Year, Taylor University 1984
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1987
- NIH MERIT Award 1987–1995
- Henry D. Chadwick Medal, Massachusetts Thoracic Society 1993
- Honorary Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 1999, Wuhan, China
- Recognition of Merit, Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences's (LAMPHHS), 2022[12]