Jed Buchwald
Jed Zachary Buchwald is an American academic and historian. He currently serves as the 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 a MacArthur Fellowship in 1995 and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2011.
Education
Buchwald graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1974, under supervision of Erwin Hiebert. His dissertation was entitled Matter, the Medium, and the Electrical Current: A History of Electricity and Magnetism from 1842 to 1895.Works
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
- 1994 – The Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich Hertz and electric waves
- 1995 – Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics
- 1996 – Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards in 19th and Early 20th Century Germany and Britain
- 2000 – Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy
- 2001 – Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics
- 2005 – Wrong for the Right Reasons
- 2010 – The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy Over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate Over Religion and Science
- 2012 – Newton and the Origin of Civilization
- 2020 – The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs