Jed Z. Buchwald

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

Life

Jed Buchwald studied at Princeton University ( bachelor's degree in 1971) and received his master's degree from Harvard University in 1973 , where he also received his doctorate in 1974 ( Matter, the Medium, and the Electrical Current: A History of Electricity and Magnetism from 1842-1895 ). After that he was first lecturer , then associate professor and from 1989 professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST) at the University of Toronto , of which he was director in 1991/92. From 1992 he was Bern Dibner Professor and Director of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since 2001 he has been Doris and Henry Dreyfuß Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology .

He dealt in particular with the history of electricity (like Heinrich Hertz ) and optics in the 19th century (like Fresnel ). He also dealt with Isaac Newton and with interpretations of the Zodiac stone by Dendera in the Louvre in France at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. Among other things, he wrote the article on Lord Kelvin in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography .

Buchwald is co-editor of the Einstein Paper Project, which publishes Albert Einstein's collected works . His wife Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald (professor at Caltech ) is in charge of overall management . In 1995 he became a McArthur Fellow . From 1997 he was a Sloan Fellow and in Canada a Killiam Fellow. Buchwald is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Philosophical Society and the Academie Internationale d´Histoire des Sciences.

Fonts

  • 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
  • Published by Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics , University of Chicago Press 1995
  • Editor Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards in 19th and Early 20th Century Germany and Britain , Kluwer, Archimedes, Volume 1, 1996
  • Editor with I. Bernard Cohen Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy , MIT Press 2000
  • Editor with Andrew Warwick Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics , MIT Press 2001
  • Editor with Allan Franklin Wrong for the Right Reasons , Archimedes, Volume 11, 2005
  • with Diane Greco Josefowicz The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy Over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate Over Religion and Science , Princeton University Press 2010
  • The Hall Effect and Maxwellian Electrodynamics in the 1880's, Part 1,2, Centaurus, Volume 23, 1979, pp. 51-99, 118-162

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Date of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. Book project with Mordechai Feingold Reckoning with the Past. Isaac Newton, Ancient Chronicles, and the Temper of Evidence , Princeton University Press
  3. Buchwald Egyptian Stars under Parisian skies , Engineering and Science, Caltech ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / eands.caltech.edu