Background
Kay was born in Krakow, Poland, the daughter of concentration camp survivors.
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Kay graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1969 and in 1986 earned her Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in the history of science. While there, she studied the molecular biology of viruses.
Career
The family relocated to Israel and then, in 1960, to the United States. Prior to earning her Doctor of Philosophy, Kay taught high school physics, worked as a biochemistry research associate at the University of Pittsburgh and a senior research assistant at the Salk Institute. Kay spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow of the American Philosophical Society.
She taught the history of science at the University of Chicago and then spent eight years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1997.
Kay then worked as an independent scholar and held guest appointments at Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. At the time of her death, Kay was studying serial computing, artificial intelligence, and models of brain function.
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December 18, 2000 (aged 53)