Cyrus Mody (C.C.M.)

Prof. Mody teaches and researches the history of science, technology, and innovation.  He is the author of Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology (2011, MIT Press), The Long Arm of Moore's Law: Microelectronics and American Science (MIT Press, 2017), and The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s. He is PI of the NWO Vici project "Managing Scarcity and Sustainability," on the oil industry's complex relationship with environmentalism and alternative energy during the peak years of the resource scarcity debate (1968-1986). He is also co-PI of the ERC Synergy project "NanoBubbles," which takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding when, why, and how scientists attempt to correct the scientific record.