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Daniel J. Kevles is an American historian of science. He is currently the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, a position he assumed in 2001. He was previously a professor of the humanities at the California Institute of Technology, where he also served as faculty chair, from 1964 to 2001. The history of science and technology (HST) is a field of history which examines how humanitys understanding of science and technology has changed over the millennia. ...
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The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ...
His research interests have been primarily on the history of science in America, the interactions between science and society, and environmentalism. He is best known for his survey works, which generalize large amounts of historical information into readable and coherent narratives. His books include The Physicists (1978), a history of the American physical community, In the Name of Eugenics (1985), currently the standard text on the history of eugenics in the United States and The Baltimore Case (1998), a study of accusations of scientific fraud. Because he sympathized with David Baltimore in the latter book, he became the target of some ire from mathematician Serge Lang, who waged an unsuccessful campaign against Kevles being granted tenure at Yale. Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution: Logo from the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921, depicting it as a tree which unites a variety of different fields. ...
David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist and a winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. ...
Serge Lang (May 19, 1927–September 12, 2005) was a French-born American mathematician. ...
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Recently he has been working on a history of the uses of intellectual property in relation to the life sciences from the eighteenth century to the present. Template:Intellectual monopoly In law, intellectual monopoly (IM) is an umbrella term for various legal entitlements which attach to certain types of information, ideas, or other intangibles in their expressed form. ...
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