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Robert  Bud r.bud@nmsi.ac.uk The Science Museum Exhibition Rd, South Kensington SW7 2DD London UNITED KINGDOM phone: +44 (0)207 942 4200 fax: +44 (0)207 942 4202

Biographical Sketch

Robert Bud is Director of the Science and Culture multimedia project at the Science Museum, London where he has worked since 1978. He holds a PhD in the History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He works on the history of applied science. He has published books on the history of biotechnology [The Uses of Life (CUP, 1993) and Wie wir das Leben nutzbar machten (Vieweg Verlag, 1997]]. Books on military research in the cold war [Cold War Hot Science, edited by Robert Bud and Philip Gummett (Harwood, 1999)] and has co-authored a general illustrated history of technology from 1750 to the present with colleagues at the Science Museum, (in press).