Notes on Contributors

David Bloor has a Personal Chair in the Sociology of Science at the University of Edinburgh, and was for a number of years Director of the Science Studies Unit. He has written mainly on the sociology of knowledge, and is currently doing research into the history of aerodynamics.

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger studied philosophy and biology in Tübingen and Berlin, Germany. He received his M.A. in philosophy in 1973, his Ph.D. in biology in 1982, and his habilitation in molecular biology in 1987. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Lübeck, Germany, and Associate Professor at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Since 1997, he is a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Jonathan Harwood is Reader in History of Science and Technology at the University of Manchester (UK). He is the author of Styles of Scientific Thought: the German Genetics Community, 1900–1933 (Chicago 1993), Technology's Dilemma: Agricultural Colleges between Science and Practice in Germany, 1860–1934 (Peter Lang 2005), and various articles on the social history of the German academic community. He is currently writing a history of peasant-friendly technology during Europe's 'Green Revolution', 1890–1945.

Andrew Pickering is professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Constructing Quarks and The Mangle of Practice, and the editor of Science as Practice and Culture. He is currently completing a book on the history of cybernetics in Britain.