Jed Zachary Buchwald is Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at Caltech.

He was previously director of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT.

[1] Buchwald graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1974, under supervision of Erwin Hiebert [fr].

Buchwald, together with Jeremy Gray, serves as editor-in-chief of the Springer journal Archive for History of Exact Sciences.

Buchwald's wife Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald is the director of the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech.