Daniel J. Kevles Books
The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character
By Daniel J. Kevles, Daniel Kevles
David Baltimore won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1975 at the age of 37. Known as something of a wunderkind in the field of immunology, Baltimore rose quickly through the ranks of the scientific c...
Read MoreThe physicists
This magnificent account of the coming of age of physics in America has been heralded as the best introduction to the history of science in the United States. Unsurpassed in its breadth and literar...
Read MoreIn the name of eugenics
Traces the history of eugenics, the science of improving human beings by exploiting theories of heredity, from its late-nineteenth-century origins to the present, addressing such controversial issu...
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