Jed Buchwald

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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 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.^[1]