Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald

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Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald
Born1956 (age 6869)
Alma mater Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
Tel Aviv University,
Harvard University
Spouse Jed Buchwald
Children Ady Barkan
Scientific career
Thesis Walther Nernst and the transition to modern physical chemistry  (1991)
Website www.hss.caltech.edu/people/diana-kormos-buchwald

Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald (born Diana L. Kormos) is a historian of modern physical science and the Robert M. Abbey Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

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Education

Kormos-Buchwald received her bachelor's degree from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1981, and her master's degree from Tel Aviv University in 1983. She received an A.M. from Harvard University in 1985 and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1990. At Caltech, Kormos-Buchwald was Instructor from 1989 to 1990, Assistant Professor from 1990 to 1996, Associate Professor from 1996 to 2005, and Professor from 2005 to 2017. Kormos-Buchwald was appointed Robert M. Abbey Professor of History at Caltech in 2018. [1]

Career

Kormos-Buchwald is the General Editor and Director of the Einstein Papers Project. Volumes 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein have been published during her tenure at the project. She was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey from 1992 to 1993 as well as the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften at Vienna in 1997. She was recently a visiting scholar at the University of Amsterdam and Boerhaave Museum in Leiden and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2021 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. [2]

Personal life

Kormos-Buchwald's husband Jed Buchwald is the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at Caltech. Her son Ady Barkan was an American activist and attorney.

Selected publications

References

  1. "Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald | Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences". Hss.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  2. "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2021". American Philosophical Society. Retrieved 25 October 2021.