Pedro Ruiz-Castell

Pedro Ruiz-Castell is Head of the Department of Research and Documentation at the Spanish National Museum of Science and Technology in Madrid (Spain). After pursuing postgraduate studies in the history of science at the universities of Valencia (Spain) and Oxford, he was awarded a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford with a dissertation which has been now transformed into this book. His research and publications mainly focus on the history of physics and allied sciences during the nineteenth and...See more

Pedro Ruiz-Castell is Head of the Department of Research and Documentation at the Spanish National Museum of Science and Technology in Madrid (Spain). After pursuing postgraduate studies in the history of science at the universities of Valencia (Spain) and Oxford, he was awarded a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford with a dissertation which has been now transformed into this book. His research and publications mainly focus on the history of physics and allied sciences during the nineteenth and twentieth century, science in the public sphere, and scientific instruments. See less