Jed Buchwald
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American historian
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Jed Buchwald's Degrees
- PhD History of Science University of California, Berkeley
- Masters History of Science University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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.
Jed Buchwald's Published Works
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Published Works
- From Maxwell to Microphysics: Aspects of Electromagnetic Theory in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century (1988) (122)
- The Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich Hertz and Electric Waves by Jed Z. Buchwald (1997) (92)
- Thomas Kuhn (2016) (87)
- The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century (1991) (77)
- Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics, Jed Z. Buchwald, Editor. 1995. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 416 pages. ISBN: 0-226-07889-2 hc; 0-226-07890-6 pb. $65.00 hc; $24.95 pb (1997) (60)
- Histories of the electron : the birth of microphysics (2001) (44)
- Descartes's Experimental Journey Past the Prism and Through the Invisible World to the Rainbow (2008) (43)
- Kinds and the wave theory of light (1992) (42)
- The creation of scientific effects (1994) (34)
- Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy (2004) (31)
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics (2013) (27)
- Drop-out from outpatient psychiatric treatment; personality and situational determinants. (1958) (25)
- Ernst Mach: His Life, Work, and Influence (1972) (24)
- Wrong for the Right Reasons (2005) (19)
- William Thomson and the Mathematization of Faraday's Electrostatics (1977) (18)
- Journals under Threat: A Joint Response from History of Science, Technology and Medicine Editors (2009) (15)
- Incommensurability and the Discontinuity of Evidence (2001) (14)
- Newton and the Origin of Civilization (2012) (12)
- Discrepant Measurements and Experimental Knowledge in the Early Modern Era (2006) (12)
- Optics and the theory of the punctiform ether (1980) (11)
- Scientific credibility and technical standards in 19th and early 20th century Germany and Britain (1996) (10)
- History and Metaphysics: On the Reality of Spin (2004) (10)
- The battle between Arago and Biot over Fresnel (1989) (9)
- Experimental investigations of double refraction from Huygens to Malus (1980) (8)
- The Electron, the Protyle, and the Unity of Matter (2004) (7)
- Oliver Heaviside, Maxwell's Apostle and Maxwellian Apostate (1985) (6)
- Corpuscles to Electrons (2004) (6)
- [Glottoplasty--a new method of surgical voice rehabilitation]. (1984) (6)
- Kirchhoff’s theory for optical diffraction, its predecessor and subsequent development: the resilience of an inconsistent theory (2016) (6)
- A Master of Science History: Essays in Honor of Charles Coulston Gillispie (2012) (5)
- Reflections on Hertz and the Hertzian Dipole (1998) (5)
- Introduction: Beyond Disunity and Historicism (2005) (5)
- The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science (2010) (5)
- Huygens' Methods for Determining Optical Parameters in Birefringence (2007) (5)
- The Questionable Matter of Electricity: The Reception of J.J. Thompson's “Corpuscle” Among Electrical Theorists and Technologists (2004) (5)
- The Background to Heinrich Hertz’s Experiments in Electrodynamics (1990) (5)
- J. Russell Reynolds and the study of interictal symptoms in epilepsy. (1988) (4)
- Electron Gas Theory of Metals: Free Electrons in Bult Matter (2004) (4)
- The Zeeman Effect and th Discovery of the Electron (2004) (4)
- The Training of German Research Physicist Heinrich Hertz (1992) (4)
- O.W. Richardson and the Electron Theory of Matter, 1901–1916 (2004) (4)
- J.J. Thompson and the Electron, 1897–1899 (2004) (4)
- The Hall Effect and Maxwellian Electrodynamics in the 1880's. Part II: The Unification of Theory, 1881-1893 (1979) (3)
- Eloge: Stillman Drake, 24 December 1910-6 October 1993 (1994) (3)
- Fresnel and Diffraction Theory (1983) (2)
- [Intraoperative complications in the implantation of permanent pacemakers]. (2008) (2)
- A Potential Disagreement Between Helmholtz and Hertz (2001) (2)
- A Master of Science History (2012) (2)
- The Michelson experiment in the light of electromagnetic theory before 1900 (2008) (2)
- The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs (2020) (2)
- Politics, Morality, Innovation, and Misrepresentation in Physical Science and Technology (2016) (2)
- Historical Unity (1987) (2)
- Energy and Empire (1991) (2)
- Optics in the Nineteenth Century (2013) (2)
- An Error within a Mistake (2005) (2)
- Cauchy’s Theory of Dispersion Anticipated by Fresnel (2011) (2)
- Waves, Philosophers and Historians (1992) (2)
- Paul Villard, J.J. Thompson, and the Composition of Cathod Rays (2004) (2)
- Michael S. Mahoney, 1939–2008 (2009) (1)
- Electrodynamics from Thomson and Maxwell to Hertz (2013) (1)
- Mathematics in 19th century physics (1996) (1)
- Heinrich Hertz’s Attempt to Generate a Novel Account of Evaporation (1995) (1)
- The Electron, the Hole, and the Transistor (2004) (1)
- The Zodiac of Paris (2021) (1)
- Electricity and Magnetism to Volta (2013) (1)
- Eloge: Clifford Truesdell, 1919-2000 (2001) (1)
- The Rational and the Historical : An Essay Review (1988) (1)
- Journals under threat: a joint response from history of science, technology and medicine editors. (2009) (1)
- The Role of Theory in the Use of Instruments; Or, How Much Do We Need to Know about Electrons to do Science with an Electron Microscope? (2004) (1)
- The Electron and the Nucleus (2004) (1)
- Correction to: What Heinrich Hertz discovered about electric waves in 1887–1888 (2020) (0)
- Brian A. Curran; Anthony Grafton; PamelaO. Long; Benjamin Weiss. Obelisk: A History (2010) (0)
- FOUR. A Budding Career (2019) (0)
- The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere (2017) (0)
- 9. Publication and Reaction (2012) (0)
- The Hall Effect and Maxwellian Electrodynamics in the 1880's. Part I: The Discovery of a New Electric Field (2008) (0)
- Thomas Young and the Decipherment of Egyptian Hieroglyphs (2016) (0)
- Book Review:The History of Modern Science. A Guide to the Second Scientific Revolution, 1800-1950 Stephen George Brush (1989) (0)
- 7. Text and Testimony (2012) (0)
- [Reconstruction of oesophageal passage in extended stenosis of cervical oesophago-gastrostomy]. (1982) (0)
- Appendix E: Hesiod, Thales, and Stellar Risings and Settings (2012) (0)
- SIX. Hertz's Early Exploration of Helmholtz's Concepts (2019) (0)
- Creating the Past in the Student Laboratory (2003) (0)
- Historical Examples of Misrepresentation, Innovation, and Morality in Physical Science and Technology (2016) (0)
- 5. Aberrant Numbers: The Propagation of Mankind before and after the Deluge (2012) (0)
- Sir Oliver Lodge, Psychical Researcher and Scientist by W. P. Jolly. Reviewer (1976) (0)
- Thomas S. Kuhn (1996) (0)
- Who Really Discovered the Electron (2004) (0)
- 10. The War on Newton in England (2012) (0)
- What Shouls Philosophers of Science Learn from the History of the Electrons (2004) (0)
- Egyptian Stars under Paris Skies (2021) (0)
- Appendix C: Commented Extracts from Newton’s MS Calculations (2012) (0)
- 1. Troubled Senses (2012) (0)
- SIC volume 6 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1993) (0)
- FIFTEEN. How the Resonator Became an Electric Probe (2019) (0)
- The Physicists' Electrons and Its appropriaton by the Chemists (2004) (0)
- The Archive for History of Exact Sciences expands its scope to include the history of modern biology (2008) (0)
- TWO. Forms of Electrodynamics (2019) (0)
- Notices of Books (1978) (0)
- Experiments on birefringent Icelandic crystal : with a facsimile of the original publication 1669 (1991) (0)
- SEVENTEEN. Electric Waves Manipulated (2019) (0)
- History of recent science & technology [project website] (2006) (0)
- Appendix D: Placing Colures on the Original Star Globe (2012) (0)
- 11. The War on Newton in France (2012) (0)
- THIRTEEN. Assumption X (2019) (0)
- 12. The Demise of Chronology (2012) (0)
- How Hertz Fabricated Helmholtzian Forces in His Karlsruhe Laboratory or Why He Did Not Discover Electric Waves in 18871 (1994) (0)
- EIGHTEEN. Conclusion: Restraint and Reconstruction (2019) (0)
- Corpuscles and Electrons (2004) (0)
- What Heinrich Hertz discovered about electric waves in 1887–1888 (2020) (0)
- The Riddle of the Rosetta (2020) (0)
- Electrons Applied and Appropriated (2004) (0)
- FOURTEEN. A Novel Device (2019) (0)
- SIXTEEN. Electric Propagation Produced (2019) (0)
- 13. Evidence and History (2012) (0)
- Book Review:Innovation in Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory: Molecular Vortices, Displacement Current, and Light Daniel M. Siegel (1993) (0)
- THREE. Realizing Potentials in the Laboratory (2019) (0)
- What Was The Newborn Electron Good For (2004) (0)
- Appendix A: Signs, Conventions, Dating, and Definitions (2012) (0)
- NINE. Specific Powers in the Laboratory (2019) (0)
- Publications by Charles Coulston Gillispie (2011) (0)
- 6. Newtonian History (2012) (0)
- Methodological Aspects of the Development of Low Temperature Physics 1881-1956: Concepts out of Context. K. Gavroglu , Y. Goudaroulis (1993) (0)
- Politics, Morality, Innovation, and Misrepresentation in Physical Science and Technology (2016) (0)
- The cipher of the zodiac (2012) (0)
- Kirchhoff’s theory for optical diffraction, its predecessor and subsequent development: the resilience of an inconsistent theory (2016) (0)
- 4. Isaac Newton on Prophecies and Idolatry (2012) (0)
- Remodeling A Classic: The Electron in Organic Chemistry, 1900–1940 (2004) (0)
- Kuhn’s Structure Four and a Half Decades Later (2012) (0)
- P. M. Harman (ed.). The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell. Volume I: 1846–1862 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xxviii + 748. ISBN 0-521-25625-9. £135.00, $195. (1992) (0)
- Book Review:La polarisation rotatoire naturelle: De la structure de la lumiere a celle des molecules Jean Rosmorduc (1984) (0)
- Book Review:Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth Joe D. Burchfield (1976) (0)
- Brian A. Curran;, Anthony Grafton;, Pamela O. Long;, Benjamin Weiss.Obelisk: A History.(Burndy Library Publications, N.S., 2.). 383 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. $27.95 (paper). (2010) (0)
- Reply to Mattingly (2001) (0)
- 8. Electrodynamics in Context: Object States, Laboratory Practice, and Anti-Romanticism (2019) (0)
- A Reminiscence of Thomas Kuhn (2010) (0)
- Appendix B: Newton’s Computational Methods (2012) (0)
- David B. Wilson. Kelvin and Stokes. A Comparative Study in Victorian Physics . Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1987. Pp. xvi + 253. ISBN 0-85274-526-5. £35.00. (1989) (0)
- Index of authors (1991) (0)
- 3. Erudition and Chronology in Seventeenth-Century England (2012) (0)
- 2. Troubled Numbers (2012) (0)
- TWELVE. Hertz's Argument (2019) (0)
- The cipher of the zodiac (2012) (0)
- Kinds and (In)Commensurability (1994) (0)
- Editorial statement (1997) (0)
- Using Maxwell's Equations in the late 1800s (2012) (0)
- Winner of the Annals of Science Best Paper Prize for 2019 (2020) (0)
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