Jed Buchwald

Jed Buchwald

Jed Z. Buchwald is Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at Caltech. He was previously director of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT. He won the McArthur Fellowship in 1995. He has been a member of the History of Recent Science and Technology community since September 21, 2001.

Buchwald's publications include several full books and edited history-of-science essay collections:

* 1985 – "From Maxwell to Microphysics: Aspects of Electromagnetic Theory in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century"
* 1989 – "The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: optical theory and experiment in the early nineteenth century"
* 1993 – "Einstein Papers Project" Vol. 3 (one of nine contributing editors)
* 1994 – "The Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich Hertz and electric waves"
* 1995 – "Scientific Practice : Theories and Stories of Doing Physics)" (editor)
* 1996 – "Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards in 19th and Early 20th Century Germany and Britain)" (editor)
* 2000 – "Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy)" (editor, with I. Bernard Cohen)
* 2001 – "Histories of the Electron: the birth of microphysics)" (editor, with Andrew Warwick)
* 2005 – "Wrong for the Right Reasons)" (editor, with Allan Franklin)

Buchwald is also the general editor of the book series "Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology" and of the book series "Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology."

Jed's wife Diana Kormos Buchwald is the director of the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech.

Education

Buchwald graduated from Harvard University with a Ph. D in 1974. His dissertation was called: "Matter, the Medium, and the Electrical Current: A History of Electricity and Magnetism from 1842-1895"

External links

* [http://www.hss.caltech.edu/people/faculty/buchwald Buchwald's home page] at Caltech's Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
* [http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/newton/images/icon_nf_prin.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3217_newton.html&h=52&w=57&sz=3&hl=en&sig2=AYwRcvyCLG8dRTEqtgPbmw&start=7&tbnid=-Pa0MMbf-tJzyM:&tbnh=52&tbnw=57&ei=h3D4RYG_LZK20wTsxsD6Aw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djed%2Bbuchwald%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN Newton's Dark Secrets] , "NOVA" show on which Buchwald is one the main historians telling stories of Newton


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