Jed Z. Buchwald
Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History
B.A., Princeton University, 1971; M.A., Harvard University, 1973; Ph.D., 1974. Caltech, 2001-.
Profile
Jed Buchwald studied physics and science history at Princeton University, and earned a PhD from Harvard in 1974. He taught at the University of Toronto for two decades, where he spent a year as the director of that university's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Buchwald then became the director of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and the Bern Dibner
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Research Summary
History of Physics; History of Writing
Selected Awards
- MacArthur Fellow, 1995
- Killam Fellow (Canada), 1990-91
Caltech Affiliations
External Affiliations
- American Philosophical Society, Fellow
- Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, Fellow
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow