Nathaniel C. Comfort
Nathaniel C. Comfort is an American historian specializing in the history of biology. He is an Associate Professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and he used to be employed in the history department at the George Washington University. In 2015, he was appointed the third Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center.[1] His 2012 book "The Science of Human Perfection" examines the history of human and medical genetics in America. He is working on a history of the genomic revolution in origin-of-life research.[2]
Comfort is best known for his 2001 biography of Barbara McClintock, The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. He has published several journal articles on the same topic, and was widely praised for his reinterpretation of the response to McClintock's work on controlling elements.
Comfort married Carol W. Greider, a fellow academic, in 1992. He has two children. They have divorced.[3]
Publications
- The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. Harvard University Press, 2001
- (Ed.) The Panda's Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
- The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine. Yale University Press, 2012.
References
- ↑ "Nathaniel Comfort Named to Chair in Astrobiology at John W. Kluge Center". Library of Congress. 7 April 2015.
- ↑ Ibid
- ↑ Clint Talbott. "‘Having it all’ plus ‘doing it all’". Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
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