Daniel J. Kevles
Author of In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
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Works by Daniel J. Kevles
The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project (1992) 62 copies, 1 review
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- Birthdate
- 1939-03-02
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Education
- Princeton University (BS, Physics)
Oxford University
Princeton University (PhD, History) - Occupations
- science historian
- Organizations
- Yale University
California Institute of Technology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
Society of American Historians - Awards and honors
- George Sarton Medal (2001)
- Short biography
- [excerpt from Wikipedia]
Daniel J. Kevles (born 2 March 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American historian of science best known for his books on American physics and eugenics and for a wide-ranging body of scholarship on science and technology in modern societies.
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- ISBNs
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