Keller, Evelyn Fox (1936–)
Keller, Evelyn Fox (1936–)
American biologist. Born Evelyn Fox, Mar 20, 1936, in New York, NY; dau. of Rachel Fox and Albert Fox (Russian-Jewish immigrants); Brandeis University, BA, 1957; Radcliffe College, MA, 1959; Harvard University, PhD in theoretical physics, 1963; m. Joseph Bishop Keller, 1964.
Biologist who combined work in several fields (molecular biology, theoretical physics, mathematical biology, pattern formation) and offered science a feminist critique (argued, for example, that "masculine science" or traditional science is limited, exclusive and biased), taught at several institutions, including New York University (assistant research scientist, 1963–66, associate mathematical biology professor, 1970–72), Cornell University Medical College (assistant professor, 1963–69), SUNY College, Purchase (associate professor, 1972–82), Northwestern University (visiting professor, 1985), MIT (visiting professor, 1985–86, and Science, Technology, and Society Program professor, from 1993) and University of California, Berkeley (Rhetoric, Women's Studies, and History of Science professor, 1988–93); wrote A Feeling for the Organism (biography of Barbara McClintock, 1983), Reflections on Gender and Science (1985) and Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death (1992). Received MacArthur Foundation fellowship award (1992).