Jed Buchwald

Jed Zachary Buchwald is an American academic and historian. He currently serves as the 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.

Across 1 conversation, Jed Buchwald ranges across scientific methodology, scientific progress, Newtonian mechanics. Jed Buchwald challenges Kuhn's paradigm shift theory, arguing scientific progress is more complex and not solely driven by shifts. Isaac Newton's prism experiments showed colors are inherent in sunlight, contradicting the belief that colors are modifications of white light.

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