Dr. Anthony S. Travis is deputy director of the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Senior Research Fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute London. He has published widely on the history of chemical technology, including, The Rainbow Makers: The Origins of the Synthetic Dyestuffs Industry in Western Europe (1993), a Choice Academic Book (1993), and Dyes Made in America, 1915-1980: The Calco Chemical Company, American Cyanamid, and the Raritan River (2004). With Carsten Reinhardt he published Heinrich Caro and the Creation of Modern Chemical Industry, that received the ABB-Wissenschaftspreis-2000. In 2007, Travis was recipient of the American Chemical Society History of Chemistry Division's Edelstein Award.
