Myles Jackson
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Myles W. Jackson is the Dibner Family Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Polytechnic Institute of New York University. The chair is named after Bern Dibner (1897 – 1988), an electrical engineer, industrialist, historian of science and technology and alumnus of Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
Jackson is also Director of Science and Technology Studies at NYU-Poly and Professor of the History of Science and Technology at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study of New York University. He received his Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University with Simon Schaffer in 1991. He has been a Senior Fellow of the Dibner Institute of the History of Science and Technology of MIT and the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany.
He is the author of numerous articles on the history, philosophy, and sociology of science and technology, with a particular emphasis on the cultural history of nineteenth-century German physics. He has also authored two books, Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany (MIT Press, 2006) and Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer
and the Craft of Precision Optics (MIT Press, 2000), which won the Paul Bunge Prize of the German Chemical Society for the best work on the history of scientific instruments in 2005 and the Hans Sauer Prize for the best work on the history of inventors and inventions in 2007. Spectrum of Belief has been translated into German, Fraunhofers Spektren: Die Präzisionsoptik als Handwerkskunst, Wallstein Verlag, 2009.
He was elected member of the Erfurt Academy of Sciences in 2009. He is working on issues of genetic privacy and the effects of intellectual property law and the patenting of human genes on research in molecular biology and is serving as an expert for the ACLU in their lawsuit against Myriad Genetics on the BRCA 1 and 2 gene patents. In 2010 he received the Francis Bacon Prize in the History of Science and Technology from Caltech.
Jackson is also Director of Science and Technology Studies at NYU-Poly and Professor of the History of Science and Technology at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study of New York University. He received his Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University with Simon Schaffer in 1991. He has been a Senior Fellow of the Dibner Institute of the History of Science and Technology of MIT and the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany.
He is the author of numerous articles on the history, philosophy, and sociology of science and technology, with a particular emphasis on the cultural history of nineteenth-century German physics. He has also authored two books, Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany (MIT Press, 2006) and Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Joseph von Fraunhofer was a German optician. He is known for the discovery of the dark absorption lines known as Fraunhofer lines in the Sun's spectrum, and for making excellent optical glass and achromatic telescope objectives.-Biography:Fraunhofer was born in Straubing, Bavaria...
and the Craft of Precision Optics (MIT Press, 2000), which won the Paul Bunge Prize of the German Chemical Society for the best work on the history of scientific instruments in 2005 and the Hans Sauer Prize for the best work on the history of inventors and inventions in 2007. Spectrum of Belief has been translated into German, Fraunhofers Spektren: Die Präzisionsoptik als Handwerkskunst, Wallstein Verlag, 2009.
He was elected member of the Erfurt Academy of Sciences in 2009. He is working on issues of genetic privacy and the effects of intellectual property law and the patenting of human genes on research in molecular biology and is serving as an expert for the ACLU in their lawsuit against Myriad Genetics on the BRCA 1 and 2 gene patents. In 2010 he received the Francis Bacon Prize in the History of Science and Technology from Caltech.
External links
- http://www.poly.edu/faculty/jacksonmyles/
- http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11589
- http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3502
- http://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835304505.html
- http://www.aclu.org/free-speech_womens-rights/aclu-challenges-patents-breast-cancer-genes
- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/nyregion/31about.html
- http://www.hss.caltech.edu/humanities/fbacon