Daniel Kevles
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Daniel J. Kevles is an American historian of science best known for his books on American physics and eugenics and for a wide-ranging body of scholarship on science and technology in modern societies. He is Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Emeritus at Yale University and J. O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology.
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- The rise of the platform economy (2016) (725)
- In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human HeredityDaniel J. Kevles (1986) (712)
- First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000 (1989) (383)
- Book Reviews: The Physicists. The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America. (1977) (206)
- The Code of Codes Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project (1992) (187)
- The National Science Foundation and the Debate over Postwar Research Policy, 1942-1945: A Political Interpretation of Science--The Endless Frontier (1975) (116)
- Eugenics and human rights (1999) (93)
- Testing the Army's Intelligence: Psychologists and the Military in World War I (1968) (90)
- Science in society (2005) (81)
- The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character (1998) (63)
- Genetics in the United States and Great Britain, 1890-1930: A Review with Speculations (1980) (56)
- "Into Hostile Political Camps": The Reorganization of International Science in World War I (1971) (56)
- Plants as Intellectual Property: American Practice, Law, and Policy in World Context (1992) (55)
- Cold War and Hot Physics: Science, Security, and the American State, 1945-56 (1990) (55)
- Ananda Chakrabarty wins a patent: biotechnology, law, and society, 1972-1980. (1994) (54)
- Big Science and Big Politics in the United States: Reflections on the Death of the SSC and the Life of the Human Genome Project (1997) (40)
- A history of patenting life in the United States with comparative attention to Europe and Canada: a report to the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (2002) (34)
- The Experimental Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century (1995) (33)
- Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993) (32)
- Patents, Protections, and Privileges (2007) (29)
- George Ellery Hale, the First World War, and the Advancement of Science in America (1968) (27)
- The gene patenting controversy: a convergence of law, economic interests, and ethics. (2001) (26)
- Science and Gender (1984) (23)
- In the corridors of power (1987) (20)
- The national research fund: A case study in the industrial support of academic science (1974) (17)
- From Eugenics to Patents: Genetics, Law, and Human Rights (2011) (15)
- Scientists, the Military, and the Control of Postwar Defense Research: The Case of the Research Board for National Security, 1944-46 (1975) (12)
- The poor man's atomic bomb. (2007) (12)
- The History of Eugenics (2016) (11)
- The physics, mathematics, and chemistry communities: A comparative analysis (1979) (11)
- Renato Dulbecco and the new animal virology: Medicine, methods, and molecules (1993) (10)
- Living Properties: Making Knowledge and Controlling Ownership in the History of Biology (2009) (10)
- The Panda's Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy (2007) (10)
- Quantum Physics in America, 1920-1935 (1980) (9)
- In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Human Heredity (1986) (9)
- The assault on David Baltimore. (1996) (9)
- Protections, privileges, and patents: intellectual property in American horticulture, the late nineteenth century to 1930. (2008) (8)
- After Asilomar (2015) (7)
- Eugenics, the Genome, and Human Rights (2009) (7)
- Inventions, Yes; Nature, No: The Products-of-Nature Doctrine From the American Colonies to the U.S. Courts (2015) (6)
- Principles, property rights, and profits: Historical reflections on university/industry tensions (2001) (5)
- The Sciences in America, Circa 1880 (1980) (5)
- K1S2: Korea, science and the state (1988) (5)
- Finding a policy for mapping and sequencing the human genome: Lessons from the history of particle physics (1988) (4)
- Star chambers will result in injustice (1998) (4)
- FDR's Science Policy. (1974) (4)
- The sciences in America, circa 1880. (1980) (4)
- The historical contingency of bioethics. (2000) (4)
- Annals of Eugenics: A Secular Faith- II (1984) (4)
- Science and Technology in U.S. History Textbooks: What's There--And What Ought to Be There. (1988) (4)
- Flash and Sound in the AEF: The History of a Technical Service (1969) (4)
- What’s New about the Politics of Science? (2014) (4)
- A gentleman's pursuit (1990) (3)
- Federal Legislation for Engineering Experiment Stations: The Episode of World War I (1971) (3)
- Huxley and the popularization of science (1988) (3)
- Patenting Human Genes: the Advent of Ethics in the Political Economy of Patent Law (1998) (3)
- R&D and the Arms Race: An Analytical Look (1988) (3)
- Vital essences and human wholeness: the social readings of biological information. (1991) (3)
- Cold war and hot physics : Reflections on science, security and the American state (1988) (3)
- Science and Technology in U.S. History Textbooks: What's There-and what Ought to be There (1988) (3)
- The rich and the irradiated (1989) (3)
- Summit on Human Gene Editing (2016) (3)
- Foundations, universities, and trends in support for the physical and biological sciences, 1900-1992. (1992) (3)
- Hiroshima Plus 20 (1966) (2)
- 14. Howard Temin: Rebel of Evidence and Reason (2017) (2)
- Genes, Railroads, and Regulations: Intellectual Property and the Public Interest (2012) (2)
- Medicare, Medicaid, and pharmaceuticals: the price of innovation. (2015) (2)
- A fistful of wishful thinking (1999) (2)
- Physicists and the revolt against science in the 1930's (1978) (2)
- Patent Policy, Technological Innovation, and Government Contracts: A Selective Critique (1974) (2)
- Robert A. Millikan (1979) (2)
- Advice to the Government (1995) (2)
- Inventing the world 1845. (2015) (2)
- The advent of animal patents: innovation and controversy in the engineering and ownership of life. (2002) (2)
- Ownership and identity (2003) (2)
- Here Comes the Master Race (2003) (2)
- Biology, Medicine and Society 1840–1940: Genetics in the United States and Great Britain 1890–1930: A Review with Speculations (1981) (2)
- C. Notes On the Politics of American Science: Commentary On Papers By Alice Kimball Smith and Dorothy Nelkin (1978) (2)
- An octopus-like obsession with loyalty (1999) (2)
- Good-bye to the SSC: On the Life and Death of the Superconducting Super Collider (1995) (1)
- Study cloning, don't ban it. (1997) (1)
- Charles Kenneth Leith;: Scientific adviser (1971) (1)
- EDEN AND EMPIRE (2011) (1)
- AmericaJohn A. Garraty;, Mark C. Carnes (Editors).American National Biography. (Published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.) 24 volumes. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. $2,500. Online edition and supplements at www.anb.org.: An Expanded Biographical Reg (2003) (1)
- Biotechnology, Ethics, and Society (1993) (1)
- Meddling with Human Nature. (2002) (1)
- What’s Manifest in the History of SciTech: Reflections on The History Manifesto (2016) (1)
- Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society: Santa Fe, 11-14 November 1993 (1994) (1)
- Statistical data and the history of women: a critique of Margaret Rossiter's women scientists in America: struggles and strategies to 1940 (1983) (1)
- A History of Technology. Volume VI: The Twentieth Century, c. 1900 to c. 1950, Part I. Trevor I. WilliamsA History of Technology. Volume VII: The Twentieth Century, c. 1900 to c. 1950, Part II. (1980) (1)
- Albert Einstein: Relativity,War, and Fame (2005) (1)
- R&D powerhouses. (1993) (0)
- The Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry Communities in America, 1870-1915: A Statistical Survey (1977) (0)
- Book Review:National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs. Vol. XXXIX (1968) (0)
- Alison Winter (1965–2016) (2018) (0)
- The future of human nature: a symposium on the promises and challengesof the revolutions in genomics and computer science, April 10, 11, and 12, 2003 (2004) (0)
- Genetics in the United States and Great Britain 1890-1930 : queries and speculations (1978) (0)
- The Politics of Atomic Reality@@@Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years. (1990) (0)
- Book Review:Birth Control and the Population Question in England, 1877-1930 Richard Allen Soloway (1984) (0)
- Reviews (2007) (0)
- Letter from Daniel J. Kevles to Stanfield and June Rogers (1985) (0)
- Nasty physics (1991) (0)
- Book Review:Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections Alice Kimball Smith, Charles Weiner (1981) (0)
- Jodrell bank and cambridge. (1977) (0)
- Eugenics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1930 : a comparative analysis (1979) (0)
- No: The Products-of-Nature Doctrine From the American Colonies to the U.S. Courts (2015) (0)
- Physics and national power, 1870‐1930 (2008) (0)
- Book Review:Scientists in Search of Their Conscience Anthony R. Michaelis, Hugh Harvey (1975) (0)
- Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience. Edited by Merritt Roe Smith. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 391. $30.00 (1986) (0)
- THE POLITICS OF ATOMIC REALITY (2016) (0)
- When Science Goes Bad (2007) (0)
- The Clergy May Come to Regret Its Involvement with Jeremy Rifkin (1986) (0)
- Book Review (2023) (0)
- A century in books : Princeton University Press 1905-2005 (2005) (0)
- FDR's Science Policy (1974) (0)
- Meeting Reports: Notes and Commentaries on XVth International Congress of the History ofScience. Edinburgh, Scotland, 10-19 August 1977 (1977) (0)
- A leader of the fly room. (1979) (0)
- The contested Earth: science, equity & the environment (2008) (0)
- Cells and salesmanship (1995) (0)
- Historical inventory. (1976) (0)
- Physics in WWI: Fighting the Acoustic War (2015) (0)
- Struggles for Truth: Scientists, Hucksters, and Charlatans in Nineteenth-Century America (2018) (0)
- Oaks and cacti. (1986) (0)
- A History of Space Flight. By Eugene M. Emme. Coordinating Editor, James V. Bernardo. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1965. Pp. 224. $2.95.) (1966) (0)
- Legacies of the Manhattan Project (2017) (0)
- The British and American Genetics Communities, 1900-1930: A Quantitative Comparison (1981) (0)
- At the Heart of the Bomb: The Dangerous Allure of Weapons Work [Book Review] (1991) (0)
- Baltimore, David (1938–) (2007) (0)
- Postscript: In the Fullness of Time and Scholarship (2014) (0)
- More on “In the Name of Eugenics” (1987) (0)
- American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War [Book Review] (1999) (0)
- Science: U. S. A. (1966) (0)
- Pieces of the Action. Vannevar Bush (1974) (0)
- Book Review:The Story of Southwest Research Center, A Private, Nonprofit, Scientific Research Adventure Harold Vagtborg (1975) (0)
- The Life of the Mind in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (1966) (0)
- Out of the Sun (2015) (0)
- Dollars for Research: Science and Its Patrons in Nineteenth-Century America. By Howard S. Miller. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1970. xi + 258 pp. Illustrations, notes, essay on sources, and index. $9.50.) (1970) (0)
- Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè [Book Review] (1994) (0)
- C. Commentary on the XVth International Congress of the History of Science (1977) (0)
- Heaven in Princeton? (1988) (0)
- John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death. By Steve J. Heims. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980. xix + 547 pp. Charts, tables, illustrations, notes, and index. $19.95.) (1981) (0)
- The Modern Experimental Life Sciences: Needs and Opportunities for Historical Research (1991) (0)
- A History of Molecular Biology (review) (2003) (0)
- Erratum to: Eugenics, the Genome, and Human Rights (2010) (0)
- Book Review:Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower: A Memoir of the First Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology James R. Killian, Jr. (1979) (0)
- Charles Kenneth Leith, Scientific Adviser. By Sylvia Wallace McGrath. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. xii + 255 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, essay on sources, and index. $15.00.) (1972) (0)
- Human Chromosomes--Down's Disorder and the Binder's Mistakes (1985) (0)
- The Physics, Mathematics, and Chemical Communities in the United States, 1870-1915: A Preliminary Statistical Report (1975) (0)
- The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund. By William H. Tucker. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xii, 286 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-252-02762-0.) (2003) (0)
- Scientific Fraud and Misconduct in American Political Culture: Reflections on the Baltimore Case (1998) (0)
- The Physicists: Everything You Always Wanted to Know...?@@@The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America. (1979) (0)
- Einstein's devils (2005) (0)
- Practical Pressures and Scientific Payoffs: A Long View of Knowledge and Utility in Federal Research (2017) (0)
- Millikan: Spokesman for Science in the Twenties (1969) (0)
- America (2003) (0)
- Why and How: Reflections in an Autobiographical Key (2013) (0)
- Eric Frederick Goldman (1997) (0)
- Blaming biology? (1989) (0)
- Day of Trinity (1966) (0)
- Physics without apparatus (1994) (0)
- Genes, Railroads, and Regulations (2012) (0)
- The professions of science in America: their ambivalent history (1981) (0)
- Herman J. Muller [Review of Genes, Radiation, and Society: The Life and Work of H. J. Muller, by E. A. Carlson] (1981) (0)
- NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS (1968) (0)
- A reshaping in biology: the american development of biology. (1988) (0)
- Book Review:Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century Philip Shabecoff (2001) (0)
- A Century in Books (2005) (0)
- Book Review:The Militarization of Space: U.S. Policy, 1945-1984 Paul B. Stares (1987) (0)
- How they killed Upton Sinclair (1993) (0)
- The Codes of Codes (1995) (0)
- The Enemies Without and Within Cancer and the History of the Laboratory Sciences (1993) (0)
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