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Nathaniel C. Comfort's Degrees

PhD History of Science University of Chicago
Masters History of Science University of Chicago
Bachelors History University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Nathaniel Charles Comfort is an American historian specializing in the history of biology. He is an associate professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. In 2015, he was appointed the third Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center. He also serves on the advisory council of METI .

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Nathaniel C. Comfort's Published Works

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The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine (2012) (191)
Functional analysis of sexual dimorphism in an electric fish, Hypopomus pinnicaudatus, order Gymnotiformes. (1990) (110)
The new eugenics. (2015) (38)
From controlling elements to transposons: Barbara McClintock and the Nobel Prize. (2001) (36)
The prisoner as model organism: malaria research at Stateville Penitentiary. (2009) (29)
Drawing the Map of Life inside the Human Genome Project (review) (2012) (28)
Genetic determinism rides again (2018) (28)
Book reviews-the tangled field. Barbara McClintock's search for the patterns of genetic control (2001) (25)
How science has shifted our sense of identity (2019) (22)
“The Real Point is Control”: The Reception of Barbara McClintock's Controlling Elements (1999) (22)
"Polyhybrid Heterogeneous Bastards": Promoting Medical Genetics in America in the 1930s and 1940s (2006) (19)
Hidden Concepts in the History and Philosophy of Origins-of-Life Studies: a Workshop Report (2019) (18)
Two genes, no enzyme: a second look at Barbara McClintock and the 1951 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium. (1995) (13)
From controlling elements to transposons: Barbara McClintock and the Nobel Prize. (2001) (12)
The Panda's Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy (2007) (10)
16. Can We Cure Genetic Diseases without Slipping into Eugenics? (2019) (7)
Genome editing: That's the way the CRISPR crumbles (2017) (7)
Genetics: We are the 98% (2015) (6)
Cultural Darwinism (2008) (6)
When Your Sources Talk Back: Toward a Multimodal Approach to Scientific Biography (2011) (5)
Are genes real (2001) (5)
The Science of Human Perfection (2017) (5)
Nature still battles nurture in the haunting world of social genomics (2018) (4)
The Tangled Field (2009) (4)
Zelig: Francis Galton's Reputation in Biography (2006) (4)
A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era (review) (2012) (4)
Genetics: Under the skin (2014) (4)
Genetics: Dawkins, redux (2015) (3)
From controlling elements to transposons: Barbara McClintock and the Nobel Prize. (2001) (2)
"Novel features of considerable interest" (2013) (2)
Functional analysis of sexual dimorphism in an electric fish (1990) (2)
Genetics: The genetic watchmaker (2013) (2)
8. Rebellion and Iconoclasm in the Life and Science of Barbara McClintock (2017) (2)
Summer books (2014) (1)
Epilogue The Eugenic Impulse (2012) (1)
Disputed Inheritance: The Battle Over Mendel and the Future of BiologyGregoryRadickChicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2023 (2023) (1)
Getting Their Organ (2012) (1)
Opening a door to eugenics (2018) (1)
Summer books (2015) (1)
Barbara McClintock's Long Postdoc Years (2002) (1)
True crime: Orphan Black's Cold River and the history of American eugenics (2018) (1)
My Own Private Ishkabibble (2014) (1)
Subject Index Vol. 35, 1990 (1990) (0)
Peter S. Harper, ed. Landmarks in Medical Genetics: Classic Papers with Commentaries (2005) (0)
The Heredity Clinics (2012) (0)
Contents Vol. 35, 1990 (1990) (0)
The Century of the Gene (2002) (0)
Watson, James Dewey (2013) (0)
Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility. (2023) (0)
Biotech, Red in Tooth and Claw (2006) (0)
The Birth of Modern Science (2001) (0)
Evelyn Fox Keller.The Century of the Gene. ii + 186 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index.Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2000. $22.95. (2002) (0)
Jan A. Witkowski;, John R. Inglis (Editors).Davenport's Dream: Twenty‐first Century Reflections on Heredity and Eugenics. xi + 298 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008. $55 (cloth). (2009) (0)
Social Media Trends in Medical History (2014) (0)
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure (2023) (0)
McClintock Bibliography, including some references usually excluded (2000) (0)
Genetics without Sex (2012) (0)
Gene Action: A Historical Account (review) (2002) (0)
Fisher's Quest (2012) (0)
Genetic determinism rides again (2018) (0)
Precision Medicine for the Population-The Hope and Hype of Public Health Genomics (2022) (0)
Proving Watson-Crickery, Napkin by Napkin (2001) (0)
Did rock give birth to life on Earth (2016) (0)
Book Review:A History of Molecular Biology Michel Morange, Matthew Cobb (2000) (0)
Author's response (2002) (0)
Book Review (2012) (0)
Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome (2021) (0)
The House Always Wins (2022) (0)
Website Review: Codebreakers (2014) (0)
The Galton-Garrod Society (2012) (0)
Book Review (2012) (0)
13. Barbara McClintock’s Controlling Elements: Premature Discovery or Stillborn Theory? (2019) (0)
Book Review:The Strands of a Life: The Science of DNA and the Art of Education. Robert L. Sinsheimer (1995) (0)
The stuff of life: What the human genome discoveries portend for human health (2001) (0)
Biotechnology: Recombinant gold (2014) (0)
Nature still battles nurture in the haunting world of social genomics. (2018) (0)
How the Geneticists Learned to Start Worrying and Love Mutation (2012) (0)
What Genes Can't Do (review) (2003) (0)
A Germ Theory of Genes (2012) (0)
Book Review:Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics. Ted Goertzel, Ben Goertzel, Mildred Goertzel, Victor Goertzel (1996) (0)
Playing to win (2008) (0)
Introduction (2014) (0)
Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-1960. Writing Science.Nicolas Rasmussen (1998) (0)
Lenny Moss. What Genes Can't Do (2003) (0)
Landmarks in Medical Genetics: Classic Papers with Commentaries (review) (2005) (0)
Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies (review) (2008) (0)
Talking about their g-g-generation (2005) (0)
James Schwartz.In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA. xiv + 370 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2010. $17.95 (paper). (2011) (0)

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