Daniel J Kevles

Datos Biográficos

ID209748
NOMBREDaniel J Kevles
NOMBRESDaniel J
APELLIDOKevles
FIRMAKEVLES D J
AFILIACIONESCalifornia Institute of Technology
ORCID0009-0007-3978-9351
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS53
TOTAL DE CITAS197
TOTAL COMO AUTOR53
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1968
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H7

  • John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)

    Stefano Gattei, Daniel J Kevles et al.ARTICLEIsis2026

  • Struggles for Truth

    Daniel J KevlesARTICLESocial research2018

    Struggles for Truth:Scientists, Hucksters, and Charlatans in Nineteenth-Century America Daniel J. Kevles (bio) in the united states during the latter half of the nineteenth century, the earth in its various regions offered inviting venues to scammers and charlatans. If land syndicators had long exploited the nascent nation's money-hungry culture, now fraudsters also hawked wonders taken from the ground and, especially in the Far West—a region the…

  • Alison Winter (1965-2016)

    Daniel J KevlesARTICLEIsis2018

    In June 2016 brain cancer took the life of Alison Winter, age fifty, snuffing out the incandescent spirit that so brightened her professional and personal worlds. A professor of history at the University of Chicago at the time of her death, Alison was a leading scholar in the social, cultural, and legal history of the sciences of mind. She had published some two dozen articles, book chapters, reviews, and two prizewinning books—Mesmerized: Powers…

  • Practical Pressures and Scientific Payoffs

    Daniel J KevlesARTICLESocial research2017

    Practical Pressures and Scientific Payoffs:A Long View of Knowledge and Utility in Federal Research Daniel J. Kevles (bio) the equivalents in the scientific community for "accountability" and "autonomy" are "practical payoffs" and "untrammeled basic research." From the perspective of the humanities, the sciences may appear far better off these days, but in recent years, a number of leaders in American science have lamented that federal research p…

  • What's Manifest in the History of SciTech

    Daniel J KevlesARTICLEIsis2016Citada por: 1Referencias: 10

    Making nuts-and-bolts public policy is not--and never has been--the long suit of professional historians, but general historical work, whatever its durée, has done a good deal to shape discourse on public issues. Jo Guldi and David Armitage neglect that fact, as well as the opinion-shaping influence of history conveyed via nonprint media. They also ignore the large body of scholarship produced in all media during recent decades in the history of …

  • Inventions, Yes; Nature, No

    Daniel J KevlesARTICLEPerspectives on Science2014Citada por: 1

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Courts have historically held that products of nature unmodified by human action are ineligible for patents. This doctrine derived from the evolution of the British patent system during the colonial period, particularly its lingering practice of granting patents for importation; the American colonists’ resentment of monopolies and their Enlightenment commitment to both a cultural and a natural commons;…

  • Why and How

    Open AccessDaniel J KevlesARTICLEScience in Context2013

    My first book, The Physicists , was conceived when I. I. Rabi visited Princeton in 1961–1962 as a Shreve Fellow in the History Department (see Kevles 1995). Some two years earlier C. P. Snow had published his influential provocation, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and the academic world was abuzz with initiatives aimed at achieving better literacy in science among liberal arts majors. Rabi was a Nobel laureate in physics at Colu…

  • The contested Earth

    Open AccessDaniel J KevlesARTICLEDaedalus2008

  • Patents, Protections, and Privileges

    Daniel J KevlesARTICLEIsis2007Citada por: 10Referencias: 1

    Utility patent protection has been granted broadly to living organisms in the United States only in the last quarter century, but in the late nineteenth century, for reasons related to the nationalization of agricultural markets, animal breeders and plant innovators began attempting to devise alternative arrangements to protect intellectual property (IP) in their living products. The arrangements had to take into account both the requirements of …

  • What's New about the Politics of Science

    Daniel J KevlesARTICLESocial research2006Citada por: 1

    Daniel J. Kevles What’s New about the Politics of Science? THIS IS A TIME OF PARADOX IN FEDERAL SCIENCE POLICY. U N D E R THE adm inistration of President George W. Bush, the federal government has been providing handsom e and steadily increasing dollar support for research and development. In constant 2005 dollars, the federal budget for research and development (R&D) has climbed from some $90 billion in 2000 to $135 billion in 2006, an increase…

  • A History of Molecular Biology (review)

    Daniel J KevlesARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    In this richly informative book, Michel Morange, a biochemist and historian of science in Paris, provides a masterful overview of the molecular biological [End Page 472] revolution, from its origins to recent years. He gives balanced attention to the several disciplines that shaped the field, tracing its birth and early development during the middle third of the twentieth century through the efforts of geneticists, a number of them renegade physi…

  • In the Name of Eugenics

    Daniel J KevlesBOOKIn the Name of Eugenics1998Citada por: 74

  • Force of Nature

    Daniel J Kevles, Thomas Hager et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996Citada por: 1

    Journal Article Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling. By Thomas Hager. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995 and Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics. By Ted Goertzel and Ben Goertzel. New York: Basic Books, 1995 Get access Daniel J. Kevies Daniel J. Kevies California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, De…

  • The Experimental Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century

    Daniel J Kevles, Gerald L GeisonARTICLEOsiris1995Citada por: 2

  • Ethical Issues in Biotechnology Two Perspectives

    Lilly-Marlene Russow, Lilly‐Marlene Russow et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1994

    Review of THE CODE OF CODES by Daniel Kevles and LeRoy Hood and WONDERWOMAN AND SUPERMAN by John Harris

  • How They Killed Upton Sinclair

    Daniel J Kevles, Greg MitchellARTICLEReviews in American History1993

    On August 28, 1934, Upton Sinclair, the muckraking author of The Jungle and forty-six other books, won the Democratic primary for governor of California, defeating the favored gubernatorial candidate of the party regulars, George Creel, by 150,000 votes and accumulating a larger vote total than his eight competitors combined. He had campaigned on a program to End Poverty in California-dubbed EPIC-at the core of which was the premise that the grea…

  • Plants as Intellectual Property

    Glenn E Bugos, Daniel J KevlesARTICLEOsiris1992Citada por: 3

  • The Politics of Atomic Reality

    Daniel J Kevles, Mcgeorge BundyARTICLEReviews in American History1990

  • First the Seed

    Daniel J Kevles, Jack Kloppenburg et al.REVIEWJournal of American History1989

    Journal Article First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492–2000. By Jack Ralph Kloppenburg Jr. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xviii + 349 pp. $37.50.) Get access Daniel J. Kevles Daniel J. Kevles California Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Page 578, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908006 P…

  • Science and Technology in U.S. History Textbooks

    J L Heilbron, Daniel J KevlesARTICLEReviews in American History1988Citada por: 2

    The significance of science and technology (henceforth, SciTech) in U.S. History should need no advertisement. By the last third of the nineteenth century, the abundance and richness of the land, which had supported the material growth of the country since colonial times, no longer sufficed for an increasing and increasingly demanding population. As John Wesley Powell recommended in 1878, ahead of his time, wise management of resources beyond the…

  • Finding a policy for mapping and sequencing the human genome

    Open AccessJ L Heilbron, Daniel J KevlesARTICLEMinerva1988

  • The Militarization of Space

    Daniel J KevlesARTICLEIsis1987

  • The Rewards and Risks of Studying Genes

    Stephen P Stich, John Elkington et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1986

    format-a book that gives the reader a taste of scientific background, a dollop of recent history, and a healthy dose of ominous prediction about the horrid things that might happen and the important opportunities that might be missed unless we regulate, or restrict, or redirect genetic engineering and the self-interested entrepreneurs who control it. More recently a spate of books in the Gee Whiz format has joined the list. Like the Greed and Glo…

  • Oaks and Cacti

    Hamilton Cravens, Daniel J KevlesARTICLEReviews in American History1986

    Daniel J. Kevles's new book will strike a responsive chord in many quarters. Ever since Arthur Jensen suggested in 1969 that different racial genetic endowments accounted for differences in I.Q. test performance between blacks and whites, that old chestnut, nature versus nurture, has been hotly debated in many forums. In writing this book Kevles has been mindful of that debate. Eugenics or the science of breeding a better race has become a word o…

  • In the Name of Eugenics

    Charles E Rosenberg, Daniel J KevlesARTICLEJournal of American History1986

    Journal Article In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. By Daniel J. Kevles. (New York: Knopf, 1985. x + 426 pp. Notes, essay on sources, and index. $22.95.) Get access Charles E. Rosenberg Charles E. Rosenberg University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, June 1986, Pages 232–233, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903699 Publis…