Evelyn Fox Keller

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Evelyn Fox Keller (born March 20, 1936 in New York City ) is an American physicist and philosopher who deals with feminist criticism of science . She is an Emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Her main research interests are in the field of biology and gender studies , with a particular focus on the relationship between gender roles and science against the background of psychoanalysis - in particular, object relationship theory . She is considered one of the pioneers in the field of feminist science research and criticism. From her epistemological research, Keller draws the conclusion that the inner structure of science, characterized by male dominance, leads to the bioethical problems of the present.

Scientific career

After studying physics at Brandeis University , Keller graduated in 1957 ( BA ), followed by his doctorate in 1963 at Harvard University . After a number of different teaching positions and academic honors, she was professor at the University of California, Berkeley , in the field of rhetoric, history and gender studies from 1988 to 1992 . In 1992 she moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (Massachusetts) as a professor of the history and philosophy of science .

Together with Lee Segel, she developed the Lee-Segel model of mathematical biology with application in bacterial chemotaxis and the organization of slime molds in the early 1970s .

In 1992 she was a MacArthur Fellow . In 2006 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society and in 2007 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2018 she was awarded the Dan David Prize .

Fonts (selection)

  • 1984: Barbara McClintock . The discoverer of jumping genes , Birkhauser Verlag, ISBN 3-7643-5013-X
  • 1986: Love, Power and Knowledge , Carl Hanser, ISBN 3-446-14652-0
  • 1989: Three cultures: fifteen lectures on the confrontation of academic cultures , The Hague: Univ. Pers Rotterdam
  • with Marianne Hirsch (Ed.): Conflicts in Feminism . New York: Routledge, 1990 ISBN 0-415-90177-4
  • 1998: Rethinking Life: Metaphors of Biology in the 20th Century , Munich: Kunstmann, ISBN 3-88897-199-3
  • 2000: The Century of the Gene , Campus Textbook, ISBN 3-593-36720-3 , 2001
  • 2002: Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors and Machines
  • 2010: The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture . Duke University Press, ISBN 0-822-34731-8

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: Evelyn Fox Keller  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Evelyn Fox Keller. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Evelyn Fox
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , USA