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Evelyn Fox Keller

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Evelyn Fox Keller (born 1936) is an American physicist, author, and feminist and is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller has also taught at New York University and in the department of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.

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. Her subsequent research has focused on the history and philosophy of modern biology and on gender and science.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 835 ratings · 97 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock 4.04 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 1983 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reflections on Gender and Science 3.83 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1985 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture 3.56 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feminism and Science by Evelyn Fox Keller (Editor), Helen E. Longino (Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines 3.97 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Refiguring Life 3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Sense of My Life in Science: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In sintonia con l'organismo: La vita e l’opera di Barbara McClintock by Evelyn Fox Keller, Milvia Luisa Racchi (Editor), Luciana Percovich (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El espejismo de un espacio entre naturaleza y cultura by Evelyn Fox Keller, Renata Prati (translator) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Feeling for the Organism 10th Aniversary Edition: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”
― Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science

tags: science, truth

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“I was just so interested in what I was doing I could hardly wait to get up in the morning and get at it. One of my friends, a geneticist, said I was a child, because only children can't wait to get up in the morning to get at what they want to do." - Dr. Barbara McClintock”
― Evelyn Fox Keller, A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

tags: creativity, exciting-ways-to-learn, genius-kids, inspired-by-leonardo-da-vinci, invention, inventive-projects-for-kids, kids-science, steam, steam-projects-for-kids

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“the gene has lost a good deal of both its specificity and its agency. Which protein should a gene make, and under what circumstances? And how does it choose?
In fact, it doesn’t. Responsibility for this decision lies elsewhere, in the complex regulatory dynamics of the cell as a whole. It is from these regulatory dynamics, and not from the gene itself, that the signal (or signals) determining the specific pattern in which the final transcript is to be formed actually comes. (Keller, 2000, p. 63)”
― Evelyn Fox Keller, The Century of the Gene

tags: biology, genetics, science

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