Daniel J. Kevles is 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. His research interests focus on the history of science in America, the interactions between science and society, and environmentalism. His books include The Physicists (1978), a history of modern physics, In the Name of Eugenics (1985), and The Baltimore Case(1998), a study of accusations of scientific fraud.
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Daniel J. Kevles is an American historian of science.
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.
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.
DanielKevles describes in the following statement how science was considered by many during the early 20th century: "science was good for business, business good for America, and, in consequence, science good for the nation's economic and spiritual well-being" (184).
Kevles remarks that these attitudes were not unlike "those earlier days when men began to doubt the authority and infallibility of the Church" (Kevles 243).
Although Kevles shows the struggle between pure and applied science, Lewis seems to demonstrate in his book that in order to be pure you must perform purely and devotely as a monk.
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