Daniel J Kevles was born on 2 March 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is an American historian of science best known for his books on American physics and eugenics and for a wide-ranging body of scholarship on science and technology in modern societies.
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Daniel Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Emeritus at Yale University and J O and Juliette Koepfli Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology.
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Daniel Kevles taught at the California Institute of Technology from 1964 to 2001 and Yale University from 2001 to 2015.
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In 2001 Daniel Kevles received the George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, awarded for "a lifetime of scholarly achievement".
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Daniel Kevles is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Society of American Historians.
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In 2000 the mathematician Serge Lang waged an unsuccessful campaign to prevent Daniel Kevles from being granted tenure at Yale, asserting that Daniel Kevles' book The Baltimore Case was too sympathetic to David Baltimore.
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Daniel Kevles' research has focused primarily on the history of science in America and the interactions between science and society.
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Daniel Kevles is best known for his accessible and original interpretative histories of physics and eugenics, and for an extensive body of scholarship that ranges widely across the histories of the physical sciences, life sciences, and technology.
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Daniel Kevles's 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 Britain, and The Baltimore Case, a study of accusations of scientific fraud.
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Daniel Kevles is a co-author of the textbook Inventing America: A History of the United States and co-editor with Leroy Hood of The Code of Codes, a set of essays that explore scientific and social issues surrounding the Human Genome Project.
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