Myles Jackson
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Myles W. Jackson (born Paterson, New Jersey on 25 November 1964) is the Dibner Family Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Polytechnic University of New York City. He received his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University in 1991. He is the author of numerous articles on the history, philosophy, and sociology of sciene 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 Nineteeth-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. He is currently working on issues of genetic privacy and the effects of intellectual property law and the patenting of human genes on research in molecular biology.
Jackson, Myles W. Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in 19th-Century Germany (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2006). Jackson, Myles W. Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2000)
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