Trevor J. Pinch (1 January 1952 – 16 December 2021) was a British
sociologist, part-time musician and chair of the
science and technology studies
Science and technology studies (STS) or science, technology, and society is an interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and social contexts.
Histo ...
department at
Cornell University
Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...
. In 2018, he won the
J.D. Bernal Prize from the
Society for Social Studies of Science for "distinguished contributions to Science and Technology Studies over the course of
career."
Life and career
Pinch was born in
Lisnaskea, Northern Ireland on the New Year's Day of 1952.
He held a degree in
physics
Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...
from
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 United States. Together with
Wiebe Bijker, Pinch started the movement known as
Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) within the sociology of science.
Pinch died from cancer, four years after his initial diagnosis, on 16 December 2021, 16 days before his 70th birthday.
Works
Pinch was a significant contributor to the study of
sound culture, and his books include a major study of
Robert Moog. His 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 autobiography.
Books
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
Chapters in books
*
*
*
*
*
Journal articles
*
::
*
*
*
*
References
External links
Trevor Pinch at Cornell S&TS
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pinch, Trevor
1952 births
2021 deaths
Alumni of Imperial College London
Alumni of the University of Bath
Academics of the University of York
Cornell University faculty
Historians of technology
Scottish sociologists
Social constructionism
Sociologists of science
People from Lisnaskea
Philosophers of technology
Scholars and academics from County Fermanagh