Evelyn Fox Keller
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Keller in 1999 | |
| Born | March 20, 1936 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | September 22, 2023 (aged 87) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Thesis | "Photoinactivation and the Expression of Genetic Information in Bacteriophage-Lambda" (1963) |
Evelyn Fox Keller (March 20, 1936 – September 22, 2023) was an American physicist, author, and feminist. She was Professor Emerita of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller's early work concentrated at the intersection of physics and biology. Her subsequent research focused on the history and philosophy of modern biology and on gender and science.