Prof. Bruce Hunt

BIOGRAPHY

Bruce Hunt is a Professor in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. His main field is the history of science, and his research focuses on the development of electrical science and technology in the 19th century, particularly in Britain. He is the author of several books, including Imperial Science: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in the Victorian British Empire (2021), Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein (2010), and The Maxwellians (1991, reissued 2005). In 2015, Professor Hunt was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in recognition of his “groundbreaking work on the history of electromagnetism in the nineteenth century and the relationship between physics and technology.”