Dr. Evelyn Fox Keller: Osher Fellows

Dr. Evelyn Fox Keller is a physicist, a mathematical biologist, and a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has published numerous articles on theoretical physics, molecular biology, mathematical biology, and more recently in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science. Keller's research focuses on the history and philosophy of modern biology and on gender and science. She is the author of several books, including Reflections on Gender and Science (1985), A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock (1983), Reflections on Gender and Science (1985), The Century of the Gene (2000), and Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors and Machines (2002)