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Keller received her B.A. in physics from Brandeis University in 1957 and continued her studies in Theoretical Physics at Harvard University graduating with a Ph.D. in 1963. She became interested in Molecular Biology during a visit to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory while completing her Ph.D. dissertation. Her subsequent research has focussed on the history and philosophy of modern biology and on gender and science.


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  • ''A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock''. Freeman, 1983.

  • ''Reflections on Gender and Science''. Yale University Press, 1985.

  • ''Secrets of Life/Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender and Science''. Routledge, 1992.

  • ''Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-century Biology''. The Wellek Library Lecture Series at the University of California, Irvine. Columbia University Press, 1995.

  • ''The Century of the Gene''. Harvard University Press, 2000.

  • ''Making Sense of Life : Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines''. Harvard University Press, 2002.



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