Daniel J. Kevles

Stanley Woodward Professor of History and Professor of History of Medicine, of American Studies, and of Law (adjunct)
Chair of the Program in the History of Medicine & Science

Professor Kevles recieved his B.A. from Princeton University (Physics) in 1960, training at Oxford University (European History) from 1960-61, and his Ph.D. from Princeton (History) in 1964. His research interests include: the interplay of science and society past and present; the history of science in America; the history of modern physics; the history of modern biology, scientific fraud and misconduct; the history of intellectual property in living organisms; and the history of science, arms, and the state. He is currently Chair of the Program in the History of Medicine & Science.

His teaching areas are the history of modern science, including genetics, physics, science in American society.

Select Publications

Books

• Inventing America: A History of the United States, coauthored with Alex Keyssar, Pauline Maier, and Merritt Roe Smith (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002; 2nd edition forthcoming, 2005)
• The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character, W. W. Norton, 1998.
• The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project, edited with Leroy Hood Harvard University Press, 1992; (paperback, 1993); published in Germany (Artemis and Winkler), 1994 and in Japan (Ague Shotu-Sha), 1997.
• In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity Alfred A. Knopf, 1985; University of California Press,1986 (paperback); Harvard University Press, 1995 (paperback with new preface). Also published in England (Penguin), Japan (Asahi), Spain (Editions Planeta), France (Presse Universitaire de France).
• The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Vintage, 1979 (paperback); Harvard University Press, 1987,1995. Also published in France (Paris: Anthropos,1988).

Articles

• International Eugenics, in Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Holocaust Museum, 2004), pp. 41-60
• The Strange Case of Robert Oppenheimer, New York Review of Books, Dec. 4, 2003, pp. 37-40
• SciTech: The Forces Are With Us, Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 1, 2003, pp. B11-12
• Big Chill in Biotechnology, Technology Review (July 2003)
• His Master's Voice, New York Review of Books, April 10, 2003
• Ownership and Identity: The Drive to Manipulate DNA Has Changed the Economy and the Law, The Scientist, Jan. 13, 2003
• Eugenics, the Genome, and Human Rights, in Michael Yudell and Rob DeSalle, eds., The Genomic Revolution: Unveling the Unity of Life (Washington, D.C.: Jospeh Henry Press, with the American Museum of Natural History, 2002), 147-154
• Cloning Can't Be Stopped, Technology Review, 105 (June 2002), 40-43
• The Advent of Animal Patents: Innovation and Controversy in the Engineeering And Ownership of Life, in Scott Newman and Max Rothschild, eds., Intellectual Property Rights and Patenting in Animal Breeding and Genetics (New York: CABI Publishing, 2002)
• Principles, Property Rights, and Profits: Historical Reflections on University/Industry Tensions, Accountability in Research, 8 (2001), 12-26.
• Patenting Human Genes: The Advent of Ethics in the Political Economy of Patent Law, coauthored with Ari Berkowitz, Brooklyn Law Review, 2002; a longer version in David Magnus, ed., Who Owns Life? (2002)
• Of Mice and Money: The Story of the World's First Animal Patent, Daedalus, spring, 2002
• Obligations, Judgment, and Data: Reflections on the Baltimore Case, Gerd Folkers et al, eds., Sternwarten-Buch: Jahrbuch des Collegium Helveticum (Zurich: Haffmans Sachbuch Verlag, 1999), pp. 261-268.
• The Particle's Over [physics in the 20th century], Times Higher Education Supplement Millennium Magazine Dec 24/31, 1999. pp. 32, 35.
• Eugenics Then and Genetics Now Avoiding the Pitfalls of the Past, in Mary Hager, ed., The Implications of the New Genetics for Health Professional Education: Proceedings of a Conference, The Macy Foundation, 1999, pp. 187-204.
• What They Do and Don't Know About Cancer, NY Review of Books Sept. 23, 1999, pp. 14-21
• Eugenics and Human Rights, Brit. Med. J. 319:435-438, 1999.
• Les Lecons de l'affaire Baltimore, La Recherche Sept. 1999, pp. 66-72.
• La Biologie des Boucs Émissaires, co-authored with Bettyann H. Kevles, La Recherche July/August 1998, pp. 58-63.
• Darwin in Dayton, NY Review of Books Nov. 19, 1998, pp. 61-63.
• Scapegoat Biology, with Bettyann H. Kevles, Discover October 1997, pp. 58-65.
• Galton's Ghost in the New Reproductive Machinery: Gender and Eugenics, Then and Now, to be published in proceedings of a conference, University of Dijon, 1998.
• Big Science and Big Politics in the United States: Reflections on the Death of the SSC and the Life of the Human Genome Project, HSPS: Hist. Studies in the Phy. and Biol. Sci. 27: 269-298, 1997.
• Endangered Environmentalists, NY Review of Books February 20, 1997, pp. 30-35.
• The Assault on David Baltimore, The New Yorker May 27,1996, pp. 94-109.
• The Shape of Things That Came And Didn't: And How They Illuminate What's to Come, Science, Technology, and the Global Society (1996 Sigma Xi Forum; Sigma XI, 1997), pp. 21- 32.
• A Time for Audacity: What the Past Has to Teach the Present about Science and the Federal Government, in Harold Shapiro and William G. Bowen, eds., Universities and Their Leadership, Princeton University Press, 1998.
• The X Factor: The Battle over the Ramifications of a Gay Gene, The New Yorker April 3,1995, pp. 85-90.
• Genetics, Race, and IQ: Historical Reflections from Binet to The Bell Curve, Contention 5:3- 18, 1995.
• From Eugenics to Genetic Manipulation, in John Krige and Dominique Pestre, eds., Science in the Twentieth Century, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997.
• Ananda Chakrabarty Wins a Patent: Biotechnology, Law, and Society, 1972-1980, HSPS:Hist. Studies in the Phys. and Biol. Sci. 25: 111 - 136, 1994.