Evelyn Fox Keller

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Evelyn Fox Keller
Keller in 1999
Born(1936-03-20)March 20, 1936
New York City, U.S.
DiedSeptember 22, 2023(2023-09-22) (aged 87)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
  • Physics
  • Molecular Biology
  • History and Philosophy of Modern Biology
  • Gender and Science
Thesis "Photoinactivation and the Expression of Genetic Information in Bacteriophage-Lambda"[1]  (1963)

Evelyn Fox Keller (March 20, 1936 – September 22, 2023) was an American physicist, author,[3] and feminist. She was Professor Emerita of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[4] Keller's early work concentrated at the intersection of physics and biology.[5] Her subsequent research focused on the history and philosophy of modern biology and on gender and science.

  1. ^ Yeghiayan, Eddie. "Evelyn Fox Keller, Dissertation". The Wellek Library Lectures for 1993. The Critical Theory Institute, University of California, Irvine. Archived from the original on 9 January 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  2. ^ "Evelyn Fox Keller To Join STS Faculty". MIT News. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 15 July 1992. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
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  4. ^ "Evelyn Fox Keller MIT STS Faculty page". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  5. ^ e.g, Keller, Evelyn F. and Lee A Segel (1970). "Initiation of slime mold aggregation viewed as an instability" (PDF). Journal of Theoretical Biology. 26 (3): 399–415. Bibcode:1970JThBi..26..399K. doi:10.1016/0022-5193(70)90092-5. PMID 5462335.