Jed Buchwald

Zachary Jed Buchwald ( born April 25, 1949) is an American historian of science.

Life

Jed Buchwald studied at Princeton University (Bachelor 1971) and received his master's degree in 1973 at Harvard University, where he also received his doctorate in 1974 ( Matter, the medium, and the Electrical Current: A History of Electricity and Magnetism from 1842-1895 ). Then he was only Lecturer, then Associate Professor and in 1989 Professor at the Institute for the History of Science ( Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, IHPST ) of the University of Toronto, whose director he was in 1991/92. From 1992 he was Bern Dibner Professor and Director of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science ( Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since 2001 he is Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology.

He focused in particular on the history of the theory of electricity ( such as Heinrich Hertz) and optics in the 19th century (such as Fresnel ). He also addressed, among others, Isaac Newton and with interpretations of Zodiaksteins of Dendera at the Louvre in France in the late 18th and early 19th century. He wrote, among other things, the article on Lord Kelvin in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

Buchenwald is co-editor of the Einstein Papers Project, which publishes the Collected Works of Albert Einstein. The total cable has his wife Diana L. Kormos -Buchwald (Professor at Caltech ). In 1995 he was McArthur Fellow. From 1997 he was a Sloan Fellow and Canada Killiam Fellow. Buchwald is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Philosophical Society and the Académie Internationale d' Histoire des Sciences.

Writings

  • From Maxwell to Microphysics: Aspects of Electromagnetic Theory in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century, University of Chicago Press 1985
  • The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century, University of Chicago Press 1989
  • The Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich Hertz and electric waves, University of Chicago Press 1994
  • Publisher Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics, University of Chicago Press 1995
  • Publisher Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards in 19th and Early 20th Century Germany and Britain, Kluwer, Archimedes, Volume 1, 1996
  • Published by I. Bernard Cohen with Isaac Newton 's Natural Philosophy, MIT Press 2000
  • Editor Andrew Warwick, Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics, MIT Press 2001
  • Published by Allan Franklin Wrong for the Right Reasons, Archimedes, Volume 11, 2005
  • Diane Greco Josefowicz with The Zodiac of Paris: How to Improbable Controversy Over at Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate over Religion and Science, Princeton University Press 2010

He is the editor of the book series Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology (from its founding in 1995, MIT Press ), " Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology" (from its founding in 1994, Kluwer ), transformation - Studies in the History of Science and Technology ( the series he founded in 2000 by MIT Press ), and Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences ( with Jesper Lützen, Len Berggren ). Since 1995 he has been with Jeremy Gray editor of the Archive for the History of Exact Sciences.

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