APS Member History

1	Name:	Dr. Gerald Holton
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1996
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1922

	Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science Emeritus at Harvard University. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics at Harvard as a student of P. W. Bridgman. His chief interests are in the history and philosophy of science, in the physics of matter at high pressure, and in the study of career paths of young scientists. Among his recent books are Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought (2nd ed., 1988); Science and Anti-Science (1993); Einstein, History, and Other Passions (2000); The Advancement of Science, and its Burdens (1998); The Scientific Imagination (1998); four books with Gerhard Sonnert: Gender Differences in Science Careers: Project Access Study (1995), Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension (1995), Ivory Bridges: Connecting Science and Society (2002), and What Happened to the Children? (2006); Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond (with S.G. Brush, 2001); and Understanding Physics (with D. Cassidy and F. J. Rutherford, 2002). Professor Holton is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Life Honorary Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of several Learned Societies in Europe. Founding editor of the quarterly journal Daedalus, and founder of Science, Society, & Human Values, he was also on the editorial committee of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (Princeton University Press). Among the honors he has received are the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, the Gemant Award of the American Institute of Physics, election to the Presidency of the History of Science Society, and the selection by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the Jefferson Lecturer. He was awarded the American Physical Society's 2008 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics.

2	Name:	Dr. Daniel J. Kevles
	Institution:	Yale University
	Year Elected:	1996
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1939

	Daniel J. Kevles is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His research interests include: the interplay of science and society past and present; the history of science in America; the history of modern physics; the history of modern biology, scientific fraud and misconduct; the history of intellectual property in living organisms; the history of science, arms, and the state; and the United States since 1940. Professor Kevles received his B.A. in physics from Princeton University in 1960, trained in European history at Oxford University from 1960-61, and earned his Ph. D. in history from Princeton in 1964. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, Dr. Kevles served as assistant, associate, full professor and J.O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of the Humanities at the California Institute of Technology (1964-2001). His books include The Physicists (1978), a history of the American physics community; In the Name of Eugenics (1985), currently the standard text on the history of eugenics in the United States; and The Baltimore Case (1998), a study of accusations of scientific fraud. He is a coauthor of Inventing America: A History of the United States (2nd ed, 2006). A Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the National Historical Society Book Prize and the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, Dr. Kevles is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His work on contemporary issues appears regularly in leading journals and newspapers.

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