Oren Harman
Professor Oren Harman is Chair of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He was trained in history and biology at the Hebrew University, Oxford, and Harvard, and is a historian of science and a writer. His books include The Man Who Invented the Chromosome (Harvard, 2004), Rebels, Mavericks and Heretics in Biology [with Michael Dietrich] (Yale, 2008), Outsider Scientists [with Michael Dietrich] (Chicago, 2013), Dreamers, Visionaries and Revolutionaries in the Life Science [with Michael Dietrich] (Chicago, 2018), Handbook of the Historiography of the Life Sciences [with Dietrich and Borrello) (Springer, 2018), and Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2018). His book The Price of Altruism (W.W. Norton, 2010) (Bodley Head/Random House, 2010) won the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Book of the Year in Science and Technology, was nominated for the Pulitzer prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Oren has been a frequent contributor to The New Republic and Haaretz Magazine and He is the co-creator of the Israeli Oscar-nominated documentary series "Did Herzl Really Say That?". He was a member of the Young Israeli Academy of Sciences. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The London Times, Nature, Science, The Economist, Forbes, New Scientist, Scientific American, Times Higher Education, Discover, The Huffington Post, RADIOLAB and many others. His books have been translated into Chinese, Turkish, Polish, Hebrew, Japanese, Italian, Korean, and Mayalayam. Oren was awarded both the Excellence in Teaching and Innovation in Research awards by his university. He grew up in Jerusalem and New York City and now lives in Tel Aviv, where he sings with the Tel Aviv Chamber Choir.
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