Daniel Kevles
Daniel Jerome Kevles (born March 2, 1939 in Philadelphia ) is an American historian of science . He is a professor at Yale University .
Kevles graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and received a PhD in history there in 1964. From 1964 he was Associate Professor and later Professor at Caltech , from 1986 as Koepfli Professor of Humanities . From 1995 to 1997 he was head of the faculty. From 2001 he was Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale.
He studies US and UK history of science (specifically physics and genetics), highlighting the relationship between science and society. One of his books deals with dealing with fraud and forgery in science using the example of a case in which the Nobel Prize winner David Baltimore was involved - he supported a professor and ex-colleague who, in his opinion, was falsely accused of scientific dishonesty and lost thereby his 1991 post as President of Rockefeller University. The book dealt with Kevles criticism from mathematician and Yale professor Serge Lang , who said that Kevles was too strong for Baltimore and then tried unsuccessfully in one of his campaigns to prevent Kevles from getting a tenure at Yale. He also wrote a standard work on the history of eugenics in the United States and a book on the history of physicists in the United States. Most recently, he has studied the history of intellectual property in the life sciences since the 18th century.
In 2001 he received the George Sarton Medal , 1979 the Natural History Society Prize and 1999 the Watson Davis Prize. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
He has been married since 1961 and has three children.
Fonts
- The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character , Norton 1998
- The Physicists: the history of a scientific community in modern America , Alfred Knopf 1978, Vintage Books 1979, Harvard University Press 1995
- In the name of Eugenics: genetics and the use of human heredity , Harvard University Press 1985, 2nd edition 1995
- Editor with Leroy Hood: The Code of codes: scientific and social issues in the Human Genome Project , Harvard University Press 1992
- A history of patenting life in the United States with comparative attention to Europe and Canada: a report to the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies , European Commission 1992
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ In May 1996, Kevles published an article on this in The New Yorker , The Assault on David Baltimore , Online
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| SURNAME | Kevles, Daniel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kevles, Daniel Jerome |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |