Trevor Pinch
British sociologist (1952–2021)
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Personal life
Pinch was born in Lisnaskea, Northern Ireland on the New Year's Day of 1952.
He lived in Cornell's Forest Home neighborhood and started the band Electric Golem.
Pinch died from cancer, four years after his initial diagnosis, on 16 December 2021, 16 days before his 70th birthday.
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Career
Pinch held a degree in physics from Imperial College London and a PhD in sociology from the University of Bath.
He taught sociology at the University of York before moving to the United States. Together with Wiebe Bijker, Pinch started the movement known as Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) within the sociology of science.
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