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'''Edward Jones-Imhotep''' is a [[historian]] of [[technology]], [[academic]] and currently an [[associate professor]] at [[York University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Edward Jones-Imhotep|url=http://www.yorku.ca/imhotep/|website=York University|accessdate=18 October 2015}}</ref> He received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from [[York University]] in 1995 and a [[Ph.D.]] from [[Harvard]] in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Department of History Welcomes Edward Jones-Imhotep|url=http://history.laps.yorku.ca/2017/03/the-department-of-history-welcomes-edward-jones-imhotep/|website=York University|accessdate=29 August 2017}}</ref>
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'''Edward Jones-Imhotep''' is an American historian of [[science]] and technology, [[academic]] and director and associate professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, [[University of Toronto]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Edward Jones-Imhotep|url= https://hps.utoronto.ca/staff/edward-jones-imhotep/|website=University of Toronto|access-date=12 December 2020}}</ref> He received his Ph.D. in history of science from [[Harvard University]] in 2001.


He was a recipient of the Mellon Fellowship from the [[Andrew W. Mellon Foundation]] in Humanistic Studies in 1995. Imhotep's research lies at the intersection of historical and philosophical questions surrounding the modern [[physical sciences]] and [[technology]]. His work has been published in many scientific journals in the [[United States]], [[Canada]] and all over the world.
He received the 1995 Mellon Fellowship from the [[Andrew W. Mellon Foundation]] in Humanistic Studies. Jones-Imhotep's research focuses on the historical and philosophical aspects of modern [[physical sciences]] and technology.

His book ''The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War'' (MIT Press, 2017) won the [[Society for the History of Technology]]'s 2018 Sidney M. Edelstein Prize for an outstanding book, citing the book's "place of technology in modern history which puts the book into dialogue with the vast literatures on envirotech, on technology and state-building, on Cold War science and technology, and on modernity."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historyoftechnology.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Edelstein-Prize-2018.pdf|title=Sidney M. Edelstein Prize 2018|website=History of Technology}}</ref>


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Edward Jones-Imhotep is an American historian of science and technology, academic and director and associate professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto.[1] He received his Ph.D. in history of science from Harvard University in 2001.

He received the 1995 Mellon Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in Humanistic Studies. Jones-Imhotep's research focuses on the historical and philosophical aspects of modern physical sciences and technology.

His book The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War (MIT Press, 2017) won the Society for the History of Technology's 2018 Sidney M. Edelstein Prize for an outstanding book, citing the book's "place of technology in modern history which puts the book into dialogue with the vast literatures on envirotech, on technology and state-building, on Cold War science and technology, and on modernity."[2]

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  1. ^ "Edward Jones-Imhotep". University of Toronto. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
  2. ^ "Sidney M. Edelstein Prize 2018" (PDF). History of Technology.
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