Trevor Pinch
| Trevor J. Pinch | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 January 1952 Lisnaskea, Northern Ireland |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Bath |
| Academic work | |
| Notable works | Confronting Nature |
| Notable ideas | Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) |
Trevor J. Pinch (born 1 January 1952), is a British sociologist, part-time musician and former chair of the Science and Technology Studies department at Cornell University.
Pinch was born in Lisnaskea, Northern Ireland.
He has a degree in Physics from the 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 USA.
Together with Wiebe Bijker he started the movement known as Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) within the sociology of science.
He is a significant contributor to the study of Sound culture, and his books include a major study of Robert Moog.
Pinch's 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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