Trevor Pinch
Professor, Author
1952 –
Who is Trevor Pinch?
Trevor J. Pinch is a British sociologist, part-time musician and former chair of the Science and Technology Studies department at Cornell University.
Pinch has a degree in Physics from the Imperial College London and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bath. He taught sociology at the University of York before moving to the USA.
Together with Wiebe Bijker he started the movement known as Social Construction of Technology within the sociology of science.
He is a significant contributor to the study of Sound culture, and his books include a major study of Robert Moog.
Trevor Pinch's book, Confronting Nature is widely considered the definitive sociological account of the history of the solar neutrino problem, and was mentioned by Raymond Davis in his 2002 Nobel Prize acceptance speech
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- Born
- 1952
- Also known as
- Trevor J. Pinch
- T. J. Pinch
- Profession
- Education
- Imperial College London
- University of Bath
- Employment
- Cornell University
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on July 23, 2013
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