Evelyn Fox Keller
| Evelyn Fox Keller | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 20, 1936 New York |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Fields | Physics, Molecular Biology, History and Philosophy of Modern Biology, Gender and Science |
| Alma mater | Brandeis University(B.A.), Radcliffe College(M.A.), Harvard University(Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | "Photoinactivation and the Expression of Genetic Information in Bacteriophage-Lambda" (1963) |
| Notable awards | MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship |
Evelyn Fox Keller (born March 20, 1936) is an American physicist, author and feminist. She is currently Professor Emerita of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller's early work concentrated at the intersection of physics and biology. Her subsequent research has focused on the history and philosophy of modern biology and on gender and science.
Keller received her B.A. in physics from Brandeis University in 1957 and continued her studies in theoretical physics at Harvard University graduating with a Ph.D. in 1963. She became interested in molecular biology during a visit to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory while completing her Ph.D. dissertation. Keller has also taught at Northeastern University, Cornell University, University of Maryland, Northwestern University, Princeton University, State University of New York at Purchase, New York University and in the department of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.
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