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Kevles, Daniel Jerome was born on March 2, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of David and Anne (Rothstein) Kevles.
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In the Name of Eugenics : Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity 2ND EDITION by Daniel J. Kevles. Harvard UP,1995
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(W. W. Norton presents Inventing America, a balanced new s...)
W. W. Norton presents Inventing America, a balanced new survey of American history by four outstanding historians. The text uses the theme of innovation—the impulse in American history to "make it new"—to integrate the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the American story. From the creation of a new nation and the invention of the corporation in the eighteenth century, through the vast changes wrought by early industry and the rise of cities in the nineteenth century, to the culture of jazz and the new nation-state of the twentieth century, the text draws together the many ways in which innovation—and its limits—have marked American history.
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historian university professor
Kevles, Daniel Jerome was born on March 2, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of David and Anne (Rothstein) Kevles.
Bachelor in Physics, Princeton University, 1960; postgraduate, University of Oxford, 1960-1961; Doctor of Philosophy in History, Princeton University, 1964.
He is currently the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University (a position he assumed in 2001) and an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. He was previously a professor of the humanities at the California Institute of Technology, where he also served as faculty chair, from 1964 to 2001. He is best known for his survey works, which generalize large amounts of historical information into readable and coherent narratives.
His books include The Physicists (1978), a history of the American physics community, In the Name of Eugenics (1985), currently the standard text on the history of eugenics in the United States, and The Baltimore Case (1998), a study of accusations of scientific fraud.
The mathematician Serge Language subsequently waged an unsuccessful campaign to prevent Kevles from being granted tenure at Yale, claiming that Kevles" book was too sympathetic to David Baltimore. A the time that Kevles published his defense of Baltimore, Kevles was a faculty member at Caltech and David Baltimore had recently become the President of Caltech.
Although sharply criticized by Language and some others as well, it was generally praised for meticulous scholarship and detailed reporting. Recently he has been working on a history of the uses of intellectual property in relation to the life sciences from the eighteenth century to the present.
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His research interests have been primarily on the history of science in America, the interactions between science and society, and environmentalism.
Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman section L 1983-1985), American Philosophical Society, Society of America Historians. Member: Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, History Science Society (council 1980-1982, committee publication 1984-1988, Sarton lecturer 1985, committee honors and prizes 2001-2004, nominations committee 2007-2009), American History Association, International Academy History of Science (correspondent), Organization American Historians, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Author's Guild, Century Association, Yale Club (New York City), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Bettyann Holtzmann, May 18, 1961. Children: Beth Carolyn, Jonathan David.