PhD, Deputy Director of the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Senior Research Fellow at LBI London. He has published extensively on the history of chemical technology in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Among his books are:

- Heinrich Caro and the Creation of the Modern CHemical Industry (with C. Reinhardt) (Amsterdam: Kluwer, 2002)

- Dyes made in America: The Calco Chemical Company, and the Raritan River (2004)

- History and Technology, June 2006 (Guest editor)

Recent papers:

- "From Colour Makers to Chemists - A Jewish Profession Elevated", in Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute 3 (2004), pp. 199-219.

- "German-Jewish Chemists and Raphael Meldola: The 1906 Celebrations for the Discovery of the First Aniline Dye" in: German-speaking Jews in Sciences in Modern Times. (forthcoming)

- "Decadence, Decline and Celebration: Raphael Meldola and the Mauve Jubilee of 1906", in: History and Technology, June 2006.

- (with Robert J. Baptista) "I.G. Farben in America: The Technologies of General Aniline & Film", in: History and Technology, June 2006.

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