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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.


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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