b. 1953
Michel Janssen is a contemporary Dutch-American historian and philosopher of physics at the University of Minnesota, known for his detailed work on the development of general relativity and the history of quantum mechanics. His scholarship combines technical reconstruction of Einstein's reasoning with broader philosophical analysis of scientific methodology and theory change.
Co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Einstein
Authored influential studies on the genesis of general relativity and Einstein's Zurich Notebook
Contributed to scholarship on the Einstein-Lorentz correspondence and special relativity
Co-editor of volumes of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
Developed the 'arch-and-scaffold' model of theory construction in physics