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Evelyn Fox Keller · Philosophy & Social Sciences

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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

When

20 March 1936, Queens, New York, United States — 22 September 2023, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Where

United States

Biography

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

How & why

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

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Source: Wikipedia — Evelyn Fox Keller