Awards & Winners

Daniel Kevles

Date of Birth 02-March-1939
Place of Birth Philadelphia
(Pennsylvania, United States of America, Area code 215, Area code 267, Area codes 215 and 267)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Daniel J. Kevles
Profession Historian, Author
Daniel J. Kevles is an American historian of science. He is currently the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University and an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. 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 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, a history of the American physics community, In the Name of Eugenics, currently the standard text on the history of eugenics in the United States, and The Baltimore Case, a study of accusations of scientific fraud. The mathematician Serge Lang subsequently waged an unsuccessful campaign to prevent Kevles from being granted tenure at Yale, claiming that Kevles' book was too sympathetic to David Baltimore. Although sharply criticized by Lang and some others as well, it was generally praised for meticulous scholarship and detailed reporting.

Awards by Daniel Kevles

Check all the awards nominated and won by Daniel Kevles.

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity

1981


Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
(History of Science & Technology)

1980


Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for History (Paperback) The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America