Tag Archives: Evelyn Fox Keller

Resilience and the Nobel Prize

Posted on October 7, 2018 by Athene Donald

In case you’ve been asleep, this week has seen the number of scientific women winning Nobel prizes spike: two won this year. I don’t consider this simply as a moment of pure celebration for the cause of women in science, … Continue reading →

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Breakfast with Evelyn Fox Keller (Science and Gender Part II)

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Athene Donald

The second half of the meeting in Austria on Science and Gender gave me a very different impression, both of the topic and the situation in Austria, than I had garnered from the first 24 hours described in my previous … Continue reading →

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Too Much Interdisciplinarity? From Cliometricians to Mathematical Biologists

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Athene Donald

I have recently been reading two apparently vastly different books: In Defence of History by Richard J Evans, a Cambridge colleague, and Making Sense of Life by Evelyn Fox Keller. Despite their widely different topics and approaches, reading them in … Continue reading →

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