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Jed Z. Buchwald
J. Buchwald in 2009.
Alma mater	Princeton University (BA) Harvard University (MA) Harvard University (PhD)
Spouse	Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald
Scientific career
Fields	History of science,philosophy of science
Institutions	California Institute of Technology
Thesis	Matter, the Medium, and the Electrical Current: A History of Electricity and Magnetism from 1842 to 1895 (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Erwin Hiebert [fr]

Jed Zachary Buchwald is Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History atCaltech. He was previously director of theDibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology atMIT. He won aMacArthur Fellowship in 1995 and was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society in 2011.^[1]

Buchwald graduated fromHarvard University with a Ph.D. in 1974, under supervision ofErwin Hiebert [fr].^[2][3] His dissertation was entitledMatter, the Medium, and the Electrical Current: A History of Electricity and Magnetism from 1842 to 1895.^[4]

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, withI. Bernard Cohen)
• 2001 –Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics (editor, with Andrew Warwick)
• 2005 –Wrong for the Right Reasons (editor, withAllan Franklin)
• 2010 –The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy Over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate Over Religion and Science (withDiane Greco Josefowicz)
• 2012 –Newton and the Origin of Civilization (withMordechai Feingold)
• 2020 –The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs (with Diane Greco Josefowicz)

Buchwald is also the general editor of the book seriesDibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology and of the book seriesArchimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, as well as managing editor of the book seriesSources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences. Buchwald, together withJeremy Gray, serves as editor-in-chief of the Springer journalArchive for History of Exact Sciences.

Buchwald's wifeDiana L. Kormos-Buchwald is the Robert M. Abbey Professor of History and the director of theEinstein Papers Project at Caltech.

• Buchwald's home page at Caltech's Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
• Oral history interview transcript for Jed Buchwald on 29 July 2020, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
• Newton's Dark Secrets,NOVA show on which Buchwald is one of the historians discussing Newton's life and work

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