Jed Buchwald
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 at MIT. He won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1995.
Buchwald's publications include several full books and edited history-of-science essay collections:
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."
Buchwald, together with Jeremy Gray, serves as editor-in-chief of the Springer journal Archive for History of Exact Sciences.
Jed's wife Diana Kormos Buchwald is the director of the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech.Education
Buchwald graduated from Harvard University 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 to 1895"
