Massachussetts Institute of Technology Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences MIT Rm 10-235 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02129, USA Phone: +1 (617) 253-7960 E-mail: adelman1@mit.edu   George Adelman, after WW II service in the U.S. Navy, did his undergraduate work at Dartmouth College and graduate work at Boston University (Psychology) and Simmons (Library Science). He was a Reference Librarian at the Boston Public Library until 1954 when he became Technical Information Officer for the U.S. Navy, Office of Naval Research (Boston). In 1964 he became Editor and Librarian for MIT's Neurosciences Research Program (NRP), which, under the leadership of Francis O. Schmitt (and later, Gardner Quarton and Fred Worden) helped establish the field of Neuroscience. He helped develop (with Ted Melnechuk) the "NRP Bulletin" and became its Editor. This was a quarterly series of monographs (1964-1982), each issue of which derived from an interdisciplinary "work session" of world leaders in a particular brain subject who were convened specifically to help clarify and define this new "cutting edge" area. After a 3-year period as a free-lance editorial "consultant", he joined Birkhäuser Boston Publishing Company (later acquired by Springer-Verlag) as Editorial Director and Managing Editor where he was involved in various fields - mathematics, computer sciences, science history, architecture and design, life science, and neuroscience. Here, he began to organize and develop the first edition of the "Encyclopedia of Neuroscience", with the support and encouragement of Birkhäuser Publisher, Klaus Peters; Editor, Will Klump; and Consultant, Lore Henlein. In 1992 he returned to MIT, first as Visiting Scientist (under David Cohen) at the National Magnet Laboratory, and, more recently, as Research Affiliate (under Mriganka Sur) in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department.   Editor, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 2 vols., Birkhäuser, Boston, 1987 Co-Editor, The Neurosciences: Paths of Discovery, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1975 Co-Editor, The Neurosciences: Paths of Discovery II, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992 Editor, Neuroscience Year I, Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1989 Co-Editor, Neuroscience Year II, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1991 Co-Editor, Neuroscience Year III, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1993 Editor, Neurosciences Research Program (NRP) Bulletin (quarterly monograph journal, plus supplements), 1964-1982, 80 issues, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA Co-Editor, The Organization of the Cerebral Cortex, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1981 Associate Editor, The Neurosciences: Study Programs I, II, III, IV, Rockefeller University Press, New York (I and II, 1967 and 1970); MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (III and IV, 1974 and 1979) Contributor, "Neuroscience", Annual article in Science Year: Yearbook of the World Book Encyclopedia, 1970-1993 Co-Editor, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 2nd Edition, Elsevier, Amsterdam, CD-ROM / 2 vols., 1997-1999 Various book reviews and professional articles since 1960: Library Journal, Psychological Bulletin, Psychology Reviews, SLA Bulletin, etc.   Current: Society for Neuroscience (Charter member, Public Information Committee, 1972-1980), IBRO, AAAS Previous: Council of Biology Editors, American Library Association, Special Library Association, American Psychological Association                Copyright © 2004 Elsevier. All rights reserved.