Myles W. Jackson (born

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from 2007 to 2012. The chair is named after

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(1897 – 1988), an electrical engineer, industrialist, historian of science and technology and alumnus of Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He received his Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science from

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in 1991. Before joining the faculty of New York University, he taught at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago. He has been a Senior Fellow of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT and the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. He is the author of numerous articles on the history, philosophy, and sociology of science 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 Nineteenth-Century Germany and Spectrum of Belief:

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and the Craft of Precision Optics, which won the

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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. Spectrum of Belief has been translated into German, Fraunhofers Spektren: Die Präzisionsoptik als Handwerkskunst. He has co-edited a collection of essays entitled Music, Sound, and the Laboratory, with the University of Chicago Press published in 2013. He is the editor of Perspectives on Science: Gene Patenting (MIT Press, 2015). And his monograph, The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race, was published by MIT Press in 2015 (paperback 2017). He was elected member of the

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Academy of Sciences in 2009, of the German National Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina (

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) in December 2011, and as a corresponding member of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Science in 2012. He has worked on issues of genetic privacy and the effects of intellectual property law and the patenting of human genes on research in molecular biology and served as an expert for the ACLU in their lawsuit against Myriad Genetics on the BRCA 1 and 2 gene patents. He has been the recipient of an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship in 1999-2000, and in 2010 he received the Francis Bacon Prize in the History of Science and Technology from Caltech, where he was the Francis Bacon Visiting Professor of History of Science and Technology in 2012. In 2014 he received the Reimar Lüst/Humboldt Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and was named Bosch Public Policy Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) in Berlin for the academic year 2016-17. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 2019 to 2022., title=Board of Directors He was elected to acatech, the German Academy of Engineering in 2023. He is currently finishing up a manuscript exploring the collaborations between physicists, electrical engineers, physiologists, and musicians on improving the fidelity of early German radio broadcasts and the invention of the trautonium in Berlin during the 1920s and '30s.

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