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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 |
'''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 his [[Ph.D.]] in the History of Science 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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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 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. |
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Edward Jones-Imhotep is a historian of technology, academic and currently an associate professor at York University.[1] He received his Ph.D. in the History of Science from Harvard in 2001.[2]
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.
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."[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Edward Jones-Imhotep". York University. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "The Department of History Welcomes Edward Jones-Imhotep". York University. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- ^ https://www.historyoftechnology.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Edelstein-Prize-2018.pdf
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