Daniel J. Kevles

Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is The Baltimore Case.

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October 9, 2008: Martyred by Monsters

The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin’s Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century by Peter Pringle

May 31, 2007: Keeping Mum about 'No First Use' (letter)

April 12, 2007: The Poor Man's Atomic Bomb

War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda by Jonathan B. Tucker

March 25, 2004: The Oppenheimer Case: An Exchange

December 4, 2003: The Strange Case of Robert Oppenheimer

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller by Gregg Herken

Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb by Brian VanDeMark

April 10, 2003: His Master's Voice

The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933 by Emily Thompson

September 23, 1999: Cancer: What Do They Know?

The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor

One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins by by Robert A. Weinberg

November 19, 1998: Darwin in Dayton

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson

February 20, 1997: Endangered Environmentalists

The Last Harvest: The Genetic Gamble That Threatens to Destroy American Agriculture by Paul Raeburn

Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides by Wargo John

Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species by Charles C. Mann, by Mark L. Plummer

Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century by Mark Dowie

December 1, 1994: Earth First! (letter)

October 6, 1994: Greens in America

The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work, with Selections from Her Writings by Paul Brooks

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement by Robert Gottlieb

The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism by Charles T. Rubin

The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992 by Kirkpatrick Sale

A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement by Philip Shabecoff

Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement by Susan Zakin

June 25, 1992: The Sticking Gas (letter)

March 26, 1992: Some Like It Hot

Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership edited by Jessica Tuchman Mathews

It's a Matter of Survival by Anita Gordon, by David Suzuki

Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle edited by F. Herbert Bormann, edited by Stephen R. Kellert

Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement by Rik Scarce

Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization by Christopher Manes

Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet by Richard Elliot Benedick

May 16, 1991: 'The Final Secret of the Universe'?

Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe by Dennis Overbye

The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe by Eric J. Lerner

Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists by Alan Lightman, by Roberta Brawer

October 25, 1990: Begetting Big Science

Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume I by J.L. Heilbron, by Robert W. Seidel

December 21, 1989: Paradise Lost

The End of Nature by Bill McKibben

Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century? by Stephen H. Schneider

October 11, 1979: Science and Society: An Exchange

Books by Daniel J. Kevles

The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character (1998)
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (1995)
The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America (1987)
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (1986)
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (1985)
The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America (1978)