Evelyn Fox Keller
Evelyn Fox Keller ( born March 20, 1936 in New York City ) is an American physicist, molecular biologist and philosopher who deals with feminist critique of science. She works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research interests lie in the field of biology and gender studies, she examines in particular the relationship between gender role and science. It is regarded as one of the pioneers in the field of feminist science research and science criticism. From their theoretical scientific research draws Keller concluded that the embossed by male dominance inner structure of science to the bioethical problems of the present results.
Scientific career
After studying physics at Brandeis University Keller graduated in 1957 (BA ), subsequently received his doctorate Keller 1963 at Harvard University. After a number of different teaching and academic honors, she was from 1988 to 1992 as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, California in the area of rhetoric, history and gender studies. She changed in 1992 as a professor of history of science and philosophy in 1992 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (Massachusetts ).
1992 she was a MacArthur Fellow.