Jed Z. Buchwald is Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at Caltech. He was previously director of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology

Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology

The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology was a research institute established at MIT, and housed in a renovated building on campus at 38 Memorial Drive, overlooking the Charles River....

 at MIT. He won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1995.

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 (one of nine contributing editors)
• 1994 – The Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich Hertz and electric waves
• 1995 – Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics (editor)
• 1996 – Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards in 19th and Early 20th Century Germany and Britain (editor)
• 2000 – Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy (editor, with I. Bernard Cohen)
• 2001 – Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics (editor, with Andrew Warwick)
• 2005 – Wrong for the Right Reasons (editor, with Allan Franklin)
• 2010 - The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy Over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate Over Religion and Science (with Diane Greco Josefowicz)

Buchwald is also the general editor of the book series "Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology" and of the book series "Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology," as well as managing editor of the book series "Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences."

Jed's wife Diana Kormos Buchwald is the director of the Einstein Papers Project

Einstein Papers Project

The Einstein Papers Project was established in 1986 to assemble, preserve, translate, and publish papers selected from the literary estate of Albert Einstein and from other collections .Sponsored by the Princeton University Press and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since its inception, the...

 at Caltech.

Education

Buchwald graduated from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

with a Ph. D in 1974. His dissertation was entitled: "Matter, the Medium, and the Electrical Current: A History of Electricity and Magnetism from 1842-1895"

External links

• Buchwald's home page at Caltech's Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
• Newton's Dark Secrets, NOVA show on which Buchwald is one of the historians discussing Newton's life and work