Daniel Kevles, who joins Yale on July 1 as the Stanley Woodward Professor of History, focuses his research on the past and present interplay of science and society, the history of science in America, and the history of modern physics, modern biology and environmentalism.

Kevles, who comes to Yale from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and was a visiting professor at the University during the last academic year, also studies scientific fraud and misconduct. His best-selling book "The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character," explores the allegations of misconduct brought against Nobel Prize-winning scientist David Baltimore and his collaborators. Kevles' other books are "In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity," which was a finalist for the American Book Award in nonfiction in 1985 and received the Page One Award for a serial version; and "The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America," which received the National Historical Society Book Prize in American History in 1979 and was a finalist for the American Book Award in history in 1980.

Kevles coedited "The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project," which won honorable mention in the American Medical Writers Association's 1993 Medical Book Awards. His articles and essays have been published in dozens of magazines and scholarly journals, ranging from Biotechnology, Physics Today and Science to The New Yorker and Buzz.

Kevles currently has several works in progress, including an interpretive history of science and technology in the 20th century and a college history of the United States, as well as a book titled "The Contested Earth: From Walden Pond to Global Warming."

The historian, who earned his B.S. in physics and Ph.D. in history, both from Princeton University, joined the Caltech faculty in 1964 and departs there as the J.O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of the Humanities. He headed Caltech's program in Science, Ethics and Public Policy and also was executive officer for the humanities and chair of the faculty. He was directeur d'etudes at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 1991.

A National Endowment for the Humanities senior fellow in 1981, Kevles received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983. He has also been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Sloan Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

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