Mary "Mollie" Agnes Burniston Brown Brazier was a prominent neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of California, Los Angeles.
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Mary Brazier was born in Weston-super-Mare, England, in 1904 and died in Falmouth, Massachusetts, in 1995.
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Mary Brazier was the second of two children in a Quaker family.
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Mary Brazier attended the Sidcot School and earned a Bachelor of Science from Bedford College of the University of London.
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Mary Brazier remained at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for twenty years.
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Mary Brazier was internationally known as an outstanding neuroscientist, historian, author, and editor.
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Mary Brazier was the sixth secretary general, and first woman in that role at IBRO, beginning in 1978 and remaining in that position until 1983.
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Mary Brazier was editor-in-chief of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology from 1974 to 1984.
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Mary Brazier was the author of almost 250 articles and books.
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Mary Brazier's papers are kept at the UCLA Special Collections library.
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Mary Brazier's father was a cousin of Sir Arthur Eddington, the English astrophysicist whose 1919 solar eclipse observations provided confirmation of one of Albert Einstein's predictions from the General relativity theory.
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In 1940 Mary Brazier moved to Boston with her son; her husband Leslie remained in England.
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Mary Brazier is mentioned as a New Year's Eve 1954 dinner guest of Avis DeVoto in As Always, Julia.