Evelyn Fox Keller
Evelyn Fox Keller · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Physicist turned historian and philosopher of science; A Feeling for the Organism and Reflections on Gender and Science opened the study of how gender shapes scientific knowledge
20 March 1936, Queens, New York, United States — 22 September 2023, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
United States
Evelyn Fox Keller is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Physicist turned historian and philosopher of science; A Feeling for the Organism and Reflections on Gender and Science opened the study of how gender shapes scientific knowledge
Evelyn Fox Keller was born in Queens to Jewish immigrants from Russia. Trained as a theoretical physicist, she turned to the history and philosophy of science and wrote A Feeling for the Organism, the biography that brought Barbara McClintock's work to general attention, and Reflections on Gender and Science, which opened the question of how the language and assumptions of gender shape what science asks. She was a MacArthur Fellow and professor at MIT.
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Physicist turned historian and philosopher of science; A Feeling for the Organism and Reflections on Gender and Science opened the study of how gender shapes scientific knowledge
Source: Wikipedia — Evelyn Fox Keller
