Cyrus Mody (C.C.M.)

Research profile

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.

Research projects

NWO Vici "Managing Scarcity and Sustainability," VI.C.191.067 (https://managingscarcity.com/)

ERC Synergy "NanoBubbles," award 951393 (https://nanobubbles.hypotheses.org/)

Key publications
Mody, C. C. M. (2022). The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s. MIT Press. Inside Technology https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13547.001.0001
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Mody, C. C. M. (2023). Spillovers from Oil Firms to US Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing: Smudging State-Industry Distinctions and Retelling Conventional Narratives. Enterprise & Society, 24(3), 676-701. Article 1467222722000064. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2022.6
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Mody, C. C. M., Sibum, H. O., & Roberts, L. (2020). Integrating research integrity into the history of science Introduction. History of Science, 58(4), 369-385. https://doi.org/10.1177/0073275320952257
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Roberts, L., Mody, C. C. M., & Sibum, H. O. (Eds.) (2020). Historicizing Research Integrity and Fraud. History of Science, 58(4).
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https://nanobubbles.hypotheses.org/

https://managingscarcity.com/