Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald
Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald (born Kormos, * 1956 ) is an Israeli - American science historian .
Kormos-Buchwald completed her bachelor's degree from Technion and her master's degree (MS) from Tel Aviv University and again (MA) from Harvard University . In 1990 she received her doctorate. From 1989 she was an instructor, 1990 assistant professor, 1996 associate professor and 2005 professor of history at Caltech .
It deals with the history of physics in the 19th and 20th centuries and the history of European ideas and culture from this time. Kormos-Buchwald is the editor-in-chief of Albert Einstein's collected works at Princeton University Press ( Einstein Paper Project ). She received the Pictet Prize of the Societé d´Histoire Naturelle in Geneva .
She is married to the science historian Jed Z. Buchwald .
Fonts
- Walther Nernst and the transition to modern physical science , Cambridge University Press 1999 (as Diana Kormos Barkan)
Web links
- Homepage at Caltech
- Brief portrait at Caltech ( Memento from June 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Literature by and about Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kormos-Buchwald, Diana L. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barkan, Diana Kormos; Kormos, Diana L. (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli-US historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |